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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:11:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, jesse.brandeburg@...el.com Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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