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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: zach@vmware.com
Cc: jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, chrisl@vmware.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, arvidjaar@mail.ru,
	bruce.w.allan@intel.com, jeff@garzik.org,
	jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, john.ronciak@intel.com,
	peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com, pratap@vmware.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, mm-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: + e1000e-prevent-corruption-of-eeprom-nvm.patch added to -mmtree
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:24:32 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080903.012432.75866225.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1220429845.32688.182.camel@bodhitayantram.eng.vmware.com>

From: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:17:25 -0700

> Thus, the obvious answer to me is ... LOCK AROUND EEPROM READS AND
> WRITES now and figure out if there are deeper issues due to network
> layer and E1000 complexities later, but ELIMINATE THE CATASTROPHIC
> FAILURES ASAP.

I totally agree with Zach here.

The fact that we are still masterbating about this bug and a fix
isn't in the tree is absolutely rediculious.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-03  8:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200809021919.m82JJweC008488@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-02 21:58 ` + e1000e-prevent-corruption-of-eeprom-nvm.patch added to -mm tree Brandeburg, Jesse
2008-09-02 23:31   ` Zachary Amsden
2008-09-03  0:32     ` + e1000e-prevent-corruption-of-eeprom-nvm.patch added to -mmtree Brandeburg, Jesse
2008-09-03  2:48       ` Christopher Li
2008-09-03  8:17       ` Zachary Amsden
2008-09-03  8:24         ` David Miller [this message]
2008-09-03 17:04         ` Andrey Borzenkov
2008-09-09  2:20           ` Allan, Bruce W
2008-09-03  0:44     ` + e1000e-prevent-corruption-of-eeprom-nvm.patch added to -mm tree Ben Hutchings
2008-09-03  3:04       ` Christopher Li

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