Messages in this thread | | | From | Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8 | Date | Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:27:39 -0300 |
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On Tuesday 30 September 2008 13:28:31 Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino wrote: > Em Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:58:56 +0200 > > Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net> escreveu: > | Jiri Kosina schreef: > | > On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > | >>> If it is X related then its both a kernel + X server issue, the > | >>> e1000e driver opens the barn door, the X server drives the horses > | >>> through it. > | >> > | >> Are you sure? There was a mandriva report abou NVM corruption on an > | >> e100 too (that one apparently just caused PXE failure, the networking > | >> worked fine). > | > > | > That is very probably completely separate issue, and shoudl have been > | > fixed already by 78566fecb. > | > | Likely not, you are mentioning a patch for e1000, while the Mandriva bug > | report is about e100: > | https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=44192 > > Yes, also the reporter has said that he has got the problem with -rc7 and > this fix is available since -rc6. > > Jiri, doesn't e100 need that fix as well? > > Anyway, it is not clear for us whether this is a kernel problem. We > could not reproduce it here and the reporter is now checking his network.
He finished checks and discovered the e100 issue was in reality a hardware problem in the switch being used that started to have problems now, coincidently with this e1000e issue getting more attention, after swapping the switch the problem stopped, so just a false alarm. I closed https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=44192 that was the original report.
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