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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 14 days ago
why wifi is so sensitive? year and decade after it always seem to oops. not blaming anyone really just wondering...

it's not usually even wpa supplicant but straight up kernel oops...

i mean it can be hardware/acpi/firmware etc. that causes this...

Or maybe WiFi is a feature that we should rewrite with Rust? I mean regular oops is at least evidence of regular memory corruption. Even my non-geek friends seem to "know" that Linux always blows on suspend, so it is also kind of a "brand issue", at least in non-Android client use cases.

#kernel #wifi
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mupuf@fosstodon.org

Martin Roukala (né Peres)

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@jarkko At some point, I think blame is deserved, whether it is in the firmware or driver.

The reality is that these drivers are written by product teams who are not accountable to nor interested in users... and it shows!

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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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Edited 13 days ago
@mupuf Yeah, I'm super extra careful on my words if I have not worked with some code for myself but it might be true :-)

I'm quite sure at lest that Red Hat has nothing to do with this...

Generally I think that Net IF code would be exactly in the core definition of a Rust plausible situation: you have incoming and outgoing data from potential and actual adversaries bombed to your system at high rates.
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