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    SubjectRE: Linux 2.6.27-rc8
    On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Brandeburg, Jesse wrote:
    > Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > > What's the magic to trigger it? I've got a laptop with that e1000e
    > > chip in it, and am obviously running a recent kernel on it. Do people
    > > have a handle on it? Is it actually verified to be kernel-related,
    > > and not related to the X server etc?
    >
    > my current status mail was posted earlier today to lkml from this
    > address, since then we've had a local reproduction and are going for
    > number two. The reproduction seems racy, i.e. it doesn't happen every
    > time, so we put it in a loop doing detect, check eeprom, detect, etc,
    > and we'll see if it fails.
    >
    > Reproduction seems to consistently be around X probing time, no firm
    > leads yet. As for Intel we have keithp and jbarnes as well as arjan,
    > auke, myself and a few others involved.
    >
    > We have some patches to lock the nvm down, we'll be posting those
    > tonight and tomorrow, I also have some debug logic (and fixes) to help
    > prove that we don't think it's a race in e1000e.

    Can we get the simple debug patches including the fixes which resulted
    from them pushed upstream ASAP ?

    Thanks,

    tglx


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