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Comment by jiehong | Hacker News Reader

It is a fact that Linux driver crashes causes a kernel crash, and it’s not that rare (like usb drivers). Even GPU drivers cause this [0].

But good job on not having a crash from a driver so far. Raspberry Pi users weren’t that lucky for example.

[0]: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/bug-report-455-23-04-k...

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The Linux kernel images my company ships do not use the shit driver you are citing. We intentionally do not deploy hardware with these chips for this reason.

Yes there are tons of Linux images out there built by stupid people and thus crash all the time, which is not Linux' fault but the fault of those stupid people. As already should have been clear enough, or so I thought in the comment you replied t: my company doesn't ship stupid images built by stupid people.

> It is a fact that Linux driver crashes causes a kernel crash

See what was already written in the comment you replied to:

  We do not ship Linux kernels that contain drivers that cause crashes.

We do not ship drivers that crash, hence they do not cause a crash.

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