netdev - RE: e1000e NVM mutex contention warnings

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Date:	Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:15:02 -0700
From:	"Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	"Graham, David" <david.graham@...el.com>
CC:	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	"524699@...s.debian.org" <524699@...s.debian.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: e1000e NVM mutex contention warnings

Ben Hutchings wrote:
> What's your plan for collecting information about NVM mutex contention
> and when do you intend to remove the warnings?  I have to say I find
> this way of testing very user-unfriendly and would like to see it gone
> as soon as possible.

Hi Ben,

checking linus' tree and davem's current net-2.6 tree shows that the
code was removed as of commit: 0a834a36ac92375cd82d9e4fe4f571e257997d6a

it was put in 2/14/2009, and was included in 2.6.30-rc1 by linus.

are you suggesting that we maybe try to push to -stable too?

Jesse
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