Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8

[Jiri Kosina]

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.

> The Ubuntu people are some of the crazier ones (should I be surprised?), 
> but that one also has Ben Collins claiming they use the same e1000e 
> driver for the 2.6.26/27 kernels (from intels sf.net project). That may 
> be bogus, but if true it would indicate that it's possibly not so 
> kernel-related, or at least not so e1000e-driver-related.

I think that not many peeople are suspecting bug in e1000e directly. 
Rather a combination of X bug, kernel allowing X to do bad things (for 
example the missing check in drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c:pci_mmap_resource() 
looks particularly suspicious) and a "bug-friendly" hardware behavior.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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