Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc3] fix for bugzilla #7544 (keyspan USB-to-serial converter)

From: Rainer Weikusat
Date: Wed Jan 03 2007 - 09:17:55 EST


Rainer Weikusat <rw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

[...]

>> And, we don't want to panic() for such a trivial thing. Just abort the
>> probe sequence at most, but never shut down the machine for an odd
>> device that we find.
>
> I actually thought about that this morning: Considering the path this
> came from, this is not 'an odd device' but rather something like 'kernel
> memory corruption' (the 'endpoint' value originally came from the
> exact same descriptor).

This turned out to be wrong: The values are hard-coded in keyspan.h.


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