Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:28:45 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [Bug #11382] e1000e: 2.6.27-rc1 corrupts EEPROM/NVM |
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Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Dave Airlie wrote: > >> Well I'm out of the race, my attempts to re-write my eeprom using an >> eeprom from an equivalent laptop have totally failed and my BIOS won't >> boot anymore - so my laptop is == a brick. > > Uh oh. Shouldn't we put something like the patch below in Linus' tree > unless we get this sorted out? Otherwise more and more people who use -rc > kernels will run into this, and will get their hardware [hopefully > temporarily, but not all users are able to re-flash their network card > EEPROMs, right] bricked. > > I know that it is quite aggressive and is going to disable wired > networking on a lot of systems that have been functioning properly, > therefore RFC ... > > > > From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> > Subject: [PATCH] [RFC] E1000E: temporarily disable e1000e driver > > E1000E: temporarily disable e1000e driver
That seems a bit drastic, particularly when the debugging was beginning to point to another culprit.
We have equal case at this point to disable r8169 and i915_drm, no?
Jeff
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