i have reported the problem and even provided a fix.
I have triggered an e1000/e1000e related problem that got introduced in
the v2.6.25 merge window - one of my testboxes came up with no
networking and it took me an hour to figure out why. (i wasnt
particularly focusing on e1000, i just happened to hit that bug in 9
million lines of Linux kernel code)
I have reported it here, two and a half months ago:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/8/256
I even showed you which commit introduced the problem and gave you a
oneliner fix that i tested (it solved the problem):
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=15704&action=view
You were Cc:-ed to that. (attached below again for reference) The bug
was added to the regression list of v2.6.25. I never expected to spend
more than 10 minutes on this problem once i found out what's happening -
we fix dozens of bugs like this per stable kernel release.
I just checked latest -git, my fix is still not upstream (or any
equivalent solution - i really dont mind how it's solved and i'm not
maintaining this code).
no alternative patch was sent to me - i offered to test any solution
back then.
FYI, since i first reported it i've been hit by that problem roughly a
dozen times. (it happened sporadically so i forgot about it - until i
again had a system come up with no networking.) It caused me lost time
and lost work that could have been spent on better things.
Ingo
------------------------>
Subject: e1000=y && e1000e=m regression fix
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Wed Apr 09 21:09:35 CEST 2008
fix a regression from v2.6.24: do not transfer the e1000e PCI IDs from
e1000 to e1000e if e1000 is built-in and e1000e is a module.
Built-in drivers take precedence over modules in many ways - and in this
case it's clear that the user intended the e1000 driver to be the
primary one. "Silently change behavior and break existing configs" is
never a good migration strategy. Most users will use distro kernels that
are not affected by this problem at all - nor are they affected by this
patch - but this problem can hit users and developers who build their
kernels themselves and migrate from v2.6.24 to v2.6.25.
this fixes: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10427
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
drivers/net/Kconfig | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: linux-x86.q/drivers/net/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux-x86.q.orig/drivers/net/Kconfig
+++ linux-x86.q/drivers/net/Kconfig
@@ -2022,7 +2022,7 @@ config E1000E
will be called e1000e.
config E1000E_ENABLED
- def_bool E1000E != n
+ def_bool E1000E = y || ((E1000E != n) && (E1000 = E1000E))
config IP1000
tristate "IP1000 Gigabit Ethernet support"
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