Jiri Kosina wrote:
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Dave Airlie wrote:
Well I'm out of the race, my attempts to re-write my eeprom using an
eeprom from an equivalent laptop have totally failed and my BIOS won't
boot anymore - so my laptop is == a brick.
Uh oh. Shouldn't we put something like the patch below in Linus' tree
unless we get this sorted out? Otherwise more and more people who use -rc
kernels will run into this, and will get their hardware [hopefully
temporarily, but not all users are able to re-flash their network card
EEPROMs, right] bricked.
I know that it is quite aggressive and is going to disable wired
networking on a lot of systems that have been functioning properly,
therefore RFC ...
From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [PATCH] [RFC] E1000E: temporarily disable e1000e driver
E1000E: temporarily disable e1000e driver
That seems a bit drastic, particularly when the debugging was beginning
to point to another culprit.
We have equal case at this point to disable r8169 and i915_drm, no?
Jeff
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