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Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 10:02:53 -0700 From: "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com> To: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com> CC: Herbert Xu <herbert.xu@...hat.com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, stable@...nel.org, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, 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) Chuck Ebbert wrote: > 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. I've posted that before and it's up to the stable team. I think that it's a seriously toolarge change unless Herbert posts his short version of the fix for 2.6.21.1. I would be OK with that. BTW this bug is present in most recent kernels, certainly before 2.6.20... Auke - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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