netdev - Re: [PATCH] e1000: Don't enable polling in open() (was: e1000: assertion hit in e1000

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Date:	Tue, 22 May 2007 12:56:06 -0400
From:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert.xu@...hat.com>
CC:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, greg@...e.de,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	davej@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000: Don't enable polling in open() (was: e1000: assertion
 hit in e1000_clean(), kernel 2.6.21.1)

Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:42:39PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> applied, though as a poster (DaveJ?) noted, I'm not sure it completely 
>> fixes the bug
> 
> It should fix the problem completely in 2.6.22.  For 2.6.21, we need
> a different fix because e1000_open is directly calling e1000_up.
> 

Is there going to be a 2.6.21-stable fix for this?

Fedora is going to backport a big patchset but that won't work
for -stable.
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