Jiri Kosina wrote:

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> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Brandeburg, Jesse wrote:

>

>> this is the current set of patches that I have to help us debug

>> and/or fix e1000e issues found during this debug effort for

>> the corrupt NVM.  the "drop stats lock" - "reset swflag" patches allow

>> Thomas' patch for a mutex in the SWFLAG acquire function to run without

>> any errors.

>

> Thanks. Also Jesse Barnes' patch shouldn't be forgotten, could you please

> add it to that lineup?

>

> 	http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122237193628087&w=2

> 

can we (for now) also stick a WARN_ON() into that failure path? that way we can at least

catch if/when this happens more visibly..... if it happens consistently in say the new distros

we can be more confident that we're down the right path in diagnosing the issue.
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