Re: [PATCH] e1000e: prevent concurrent access to NVRAM

From: Jesse Brandeburg
Date: Thu Oct 02 2008 - 20:19:19 EST


On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The confirmed bugs where the nvram acquire code was called
> concurrently are still in your tree and the prevention patch along
> with the resulting bugfixes are stuck in some obscure intel QA
> process.
>
> Please apply at least the bug prevention patch below.

This is the same patch I posted 7 minutes ago, except that this patch
without the e1000e changes applied before it will cause all sorts of
WARN's to be printed during normal operation. If at all possible I
think they should stay together as a group to prevent un-necessary
noise in the logs.
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