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by jandrese 3133 days ago
That Redhat support contract won't save you from a bug in a binary blob network driver.

Crashing the whole kernel at the drop of a hat seems like a pretty extreme stance to take as a general policy IMHO. Killing and restarting the driver will usually suffice, although some data may be lost and have to be retransmitted.