Re: e1000e NVM corruption issue status

[Arjan van de Ven]

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.

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