On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Brandeburg, Jesse wrote:

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> 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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