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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 07/12] e1000e: debug contention on NVM SWFLAG
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Olaf Kirch wrote:

> On Thursday 02 October 2008 18:27:12 Brandeburg, Jesse wrote:
> > so, why now? Drivers since before the e1000/e1000e split had this same
> > code, with no reports of problems. This code has been heavily tested,
> > and one of the platforms easily reproducing this has been available for
> > 3 years now (ich8), with code that is basically unchanged in the driver.
>
> Possibly the dhcp client is doing something differently, or at a much higher
> frequency. At any rate, it seems we're seeing this now even when we just
> use init level 3, without X involvement. Karsten reports NVM corruption
> after 34 reboots into init level 3.

Had Karsten the mutex patch applied or not ?

tglx


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