From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752170AbYIXGCm (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:02:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750849AbYIXGCd (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:02:33 -0400 Received: from hawking.rebel.net.au ([203.20.69.83]:36370 "EHLO hawking.rebel.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750806AbYIXGCd (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:02:33 -0400 Message-ID: <48D9D7EF.9030604@davidnewall.com> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:32:23 +0930 From: David Newall User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080227) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Miller CC: airlied@gmail.com, jkosina@suse.cz, david.vrabel@csr.com, rjw@sisk.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-testers@vger.kernel.org, chrisl@vmware.com Subject: Re: [Bug #11382] e1000e: 2.6.27-rc1 corrupts EEPROM/NVM References: <20080922.185902.80812984.davem@davemloft.net> <21d7e9970809231403wf766660u39908aca70548ca7@mail.gmail.com> <20080923.150559.34795136.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20080923.150559.34795136.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Miller wrote: > Right now we don't have any real leads, so data acquisition is really > important at this phase. Isn't this reliably reproducible? Assuming yes, Intel are such swell guys that you might ask them to ship a few dozen cards to you to break until you've tracked down the problem. I mean, it's a lot easier to find this sorts of fault when you can see it first hand than trying to guess from third parties' reports, isn't it? For some reasonable value of "you", that so.