Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:28:45 -0400 | | From | Jeff Garzik <> | | Subject | Re: [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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