Re: e1000e: 2.6.27-rc1 corrupts EEPROM/NVM

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:47:51 +0100 David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 2.6.27-rc1 kernels appear to corrupt the EEPROM/NVM of the 8086:294c
> ethernet device (ICH9 I think).  After hacking the driver to ignore the
> bad CRC and MAC address I could view the EEPROM with ethtool and it was
> all 0xff.
> 
> Testing EEPROM reads and writes with ethtool appeared to work but after
> a reboot of the system the ethernet device (see lspci -v output) was no
> longer present.  Could invalid EEPROM contents with a valid CRC (as
> would be the case after my read/write tests) result in the device
> failing to enumerate on the PCIe bus?

Is this still happening in Linus's current tree?

Was 2.6.26 OK?

Thanks.
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