Re: [PATCH] devexit fixes in i82092.c

Alan Cox
2002-03-16T20:45:51Z

> Please for the Linux booting Linux scenario it is mandatory we get this right
> for reboot. I know for a fact that currently we leave active receive buffers on
> network cards when we reboot. (If you haven't downed the interface). So it
> is possible for a network packet to come in and hose a machine that is rebooting.

Thats a bios bug. Its pretty much the whole reason for having bus master
enable bits in the PCI configuration. The BIOS should have killed the bus
masters.

Alan