Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:11:18 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jiri Kosina <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8 |
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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.
> The Ubuntu people are some of the crazier ones (should I be surprised?), > but that one also has Ben Collins claiming they use the same e1000e > driver for the 2.6.26/27 kernels (from intels sf.net project). That may > be bogus, but if true it would indicate that it's possibly not so > kernel-related, or at least not so e1000e-driver-related.
I think that not many peeople are suspecting bug in e1000e directly. Rather a combination of X bug, kernel allowing X to do bad things (for example the missing check in drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c:pci_mmap_resource() looks particularly suspicious) and a "bug-friendly" hardware behavior.
-- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs
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