Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Oct 2008 00:07:51 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | RE: Linux 2.6.27-rc8 |
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On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Brandeburg, Jesse wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > What's the magic to trigger it? I've got a laptop with that e1000e > > chip in it, and am obviously running a recent kernel on it. Do people > > have a handle on it? Is it actually verified to be kernel-related, > > and not related to the X server etc? > > my current status mail was posted earlier today to lkml from this > address, since then we've had a local reproduction and are going for > number two. The reproduction seems racy, i.e. it doesn't happen every > time, so we put it in a loop doing detect, check eeprom, detect, etc, > and we'll see if it fails. > > Reproduction seems to consistently be around X probing time, no firm > leads yet. As for Intel we have keithp and jbarnes as well as arjan, > auke, myself and a few others involved. > > We have some patches to lock the nvm down, we'll be posting those > tonight and tomorrow, I also have some debug logic (and fixes) to help > prove that we don't think it's a race in e1000e.
Can we get the simple debug patches including the fixes which resulted from them pushed upstream ASAP ?
Thanks,
tglx
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