linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8

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Date:	Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:28:31 -0300
From:	"Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <lcapitulino@...driva.com.br>
To:	Eric Piel <eric.piel@...mplin-utc.net>
Cc:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	jesse.brandeburg@...el.com, herton@...driva.com.br
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8

Em Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:58:56 +0200
Eric Piel <eric.piel@...mplin-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.

-- 
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
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