From: "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
To: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Herbert Xu <herbert.xu@redhat.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, davej@redhat.com, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000: Don't enable polling in open() (was: e1000: assertion hit in e1000_clean(), kernel 2.6.21.1)
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 10:02:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4653223D.2010108@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <465320A6.80706@redhat.com>
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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-22 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-21 21:51 [PATCH] e1000: Don't enable polling in open() (was: e1000: assertion hit in e1000_clean(), kernel 2.6.21.1) Auke Kok
2007-05-21 22:16 ` Dave Jones
2007-05-22 0:49 ` Herbert Xu
2007-05-22 0:58 ` Kok, Auke
2007-05-22 1:22 ` Dave Jones
2007-05-21 23:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-22 0:04 ` Kok, Auke
2007-05-22 1:01 ` Herbert Xu
2007-05-22 16:56 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-05-22 17:02 ` Kok, Auke [this message]
2007-05-23 10:47 ` Herbert Xu
2007-05-23 23:34 ` Chris Wright
2007-05-23 23:38 ` Kok, Auke
2007-05-24 1:29 ` Herbert Xu
2007-05-24 4:31 ` Chris Wright
2007-05-24 1:29 ` Herbert Xu
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2007-05-21 15:32 Auke Kok
2007-05-21 21:26 ` Herbert Xu
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