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DateWed, 24 Sep 2008 22:28:45 -0400
FromJeff Garzik <>
SubjectRe: [Bug #11382] e1000e: 2.6.27-rc1 corrupts EEPROM/NVM
Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Dave Airlie wrote:
> 
>> Well I'm out of the race, my attempts to re-write my eeprom using an 
>> eeprom from an equivalent laptop have totally failed and my BIOS won't 
>> boot anymore - so my laptop is == a brick.
> 
> Uh oh. Shouldn't we put something like the patch below in Linus' tree 
> unless we get this sorted out? Otherwise more and more people who use -rc 
> kernels will run into this, and will get their hardware [hopefully 
> temporarily, but not all users are able to re-flash their network card 
> EEPROMs, right] bricked.
> 
> I know that it is quite aggressive and is going to disable wired 
> networking on a lot of systems that have been functioning properly, 
> therefore RFC ...
> 
> 
> 
> From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
> Subject: [PATCH] [RFC] E1000E: temporarily disable e1000e driver
> 
> E1000E: temporarily disable e1000e driver

That seems a bit drastic, particularly when the debugging was beginning 
to point to another culprit.

We have equal case at this point to disable r8169 and i915_drm, no?

	Jeff






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