Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8

Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2008-09-30T18:27:42Z

On Tuesday 30 September 2008 13:28:31 Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino wrote:
> Em Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:58:56 +0200
>
> Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net> escreveu:
> | Jiri Kosina schreef:
> | > On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> | >>> If it is X related then its both a kernel + X server issue, the
> | >>> e1000e driver opens the barn door, the X server drives the horses
> | >>> through it.
> | >>
> | >> Are you sure? There was a mandriva report abou NVM corruption on an
> | >> e100 too (that one apparently just caused PXE failure, the networking
> | >> worked fine).
> | >
> | > That is very probably completely separate issue, and shoudl have been
> | > fixed already by 78566fecb.
> |
> | Likely not, you are mentioning a patch for e1000, while the Mandriva bug
> | report is about e100:
> | https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=44192
>
> Yes, also the reporter has said that he has got the problem with -rc7 and
> this fix is available since -rc6.
>
> Jiri, doesn't e100 need that fix as well?
>
> Anyway, it is not clear for us whether this is a kernel problem. We
> could not reproduce it here and the reporter is now checking his network.

He finished checks and discovered the e100 issue was in reality a hardware
problem in the switch being used that started to have problems now,
coincidently with this e1000e issue getting more attention, after swapping
the switch the problem stopped, so just a false alarm. I closed
https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=44192 that was the original report.

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