linux-kernel - Re: [Bug #11382] e1000e: 2.6.27-rc1 corrupts EEPROM/NVM

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Date:	Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:47:15 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, airlied@...il.com,
	jkosina@...e.cz, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, david.vrabel@....com,
	rjw@...k.pl, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org, chrisl@...are.com
Subject: Re: [Bug #11382] e1000e: 2.6.27-rc1 corrupts EEPROM/NVM

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:27:30AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:36:38 -0700 (PDT)
> David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> 
> > I'm about to leave for a week or so in Paris for the netfilter
> > workshop, so I hope that someone other than myself will do some data
> > mining like I have instead of (merely) tossing theories around and
> > finger pointing.
> 
> A data point, just in case it helps...  I've not had time to update my
> desktop system, so this all-Intel, ICH9, e1000e-based box has been stuck
> at 2.6.27-rc3.  It has rawhide as of shortly after the floodgates
> reopened (but with my own kernel); that means X server 1.5.0 and i810
> 2.4.2-3.

I'm running a 2.6.26-rc6 kernel on a X61s laptop, which is an
all-Intel ICH8, using the e1000e driver, and I haven't been been
bitten with the problem either.  I'm using an Ubuntu Hardy userspace,
which means I'm using an 1.4.0.90 X Server with an i915 drm version
1.6.0 20060119, and my e1000 EEPROM hasn't been blasted to oblivion
yet!

Personally, I don't plan on upgrading to a newer userspace until we
figure out what the heck is going on.  :-)

					- Ted
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