Re: kern/30398: panic in ohci_softintr

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/30398; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>
Subject: Re: kern/30398: panic in ohci_softintr
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 19:30:01 +0300

 On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 01:25:02PM +0000, Paul Goyette wrote:
 >  This rather old PR (vintage 2005) has been idle for quite some time, 
 >  although there is actually some analysis and a patch is available.  I've 
 >  been running the patch for many months now, and just as noted by the 
 >  originator, the only downside is the occassional logging of the error 
 >  message, which IMHO is much better than having the machine panic!
 >  
 >  Is there any chance our USB experts might have a look at this, and maybe 
 >  commit the patch?
 
 I am no USB expert, but given the state of the USB stack, I would believe
 it is reasonable to change a panic(9) to a aprint_error(9)/_debug(9) as an
 immediate "fix" to a nearly five year old bug that is supposedly reproducable.