> On Friday, September 26, 2008 10:52 am Jesse Barnes wrote:
>> On Friday, September 26, 2008 4:49 am Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>> Jiri Kosina wrote:
>>>> 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.
>> I'm spinning a new one now with some debug output, stay tuned (just gotta
>> boot my test box).
>
> Ok here's an updated one. Jesse (Br) can you add it to your list? If the X
> driver really is mapping too much this should catch it, as long as it goes
> through sysfs.
>
> Thanks,
> Jesse
>
