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 11:01:37 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert.xu@...hat.com>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	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)

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.

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