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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] devexit fixes in i82092.c
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    Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

    > > 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.

    In the general reboot case yes it is a BIOS bug. In the general Linux
    booting Linux case there is no BIOS involved.

    Eric
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