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SubjectRe: [Bug #11382] e1000e: 2.6.27-rc1 corrupts EEPROM/NVM
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 7:01 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: "Dave Airlie" <airlied@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:59:34 +1000
>
>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:36 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>> The driver seems quite happy to access the NVRAM, I think Thomas has
>> some backtraces that show
>> it clearly doing silly reentrant things...
>
> I don't dispute that the locking is dodgy and likely needs to be fixed
> like e1000.
>
> I'm asking what userland tool or kernel event is triggering the nvram
> access.
>
> It shouldn't even touch the thing after probing and initializing
> the card.

Hopefully tglx can supply some traces, I think getting an interrupt
during device startup
can possibly access the nvram

http://www.tglx.de/~tglx/wtf2.txt

seems to suggest bad things could happen.

Dave.


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