[ltp] Re: intel driver problems in 2.6.27

[Christoph Lechleitner]

Aurimas Fišeras schrieb:
> Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 11:50:44AM +0200, Christoph Lechleitner wrote:
>>> Yves-Alexis Perez schrieb:
>>>> On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 11:05:22AM +0200, Christoph Lechleitner wrote:
>>>>> But because the real problem has not even been found yet by the kernel
>>>>> gurus, I don't trust this workaround and will not update my T61p for
>>>>> some time.
>>>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/1/368
>>>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4a7703582836f55a1cbad0e2c1c6ebbee3f9b3a7
>>> In at least one reported case, other hardware than the LAN card has been
>>> damaged.
>> Could you give me pointer on this reported case? It's sure creepy.
> 
> I'd like to know it too,

This ...
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11382#c24
... has lead me to suspect that eventually all kinds of EEPROMs could be
in danger, may it be LAN cards, WLAN firmware areas, BIOS settings areas.

However, 5 days later that claim was kind of revoked ...
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11382#c32

Of course I had been reading that bug report in the 5 days between the
e100-noise and the revoking, murphy's law proves itself once again.

The one totally dead mainboard I had in mind is the laptop of a
developer who made risky code experiments while trying to
divide-and-conquer the initial problem.

Sorry for my noise ;-))

I admit the idea of write-protecting the LAN card's EEPROM sounds valid
enough.

So finally I could switch to intrepid, which seems to omit most of the
deadlocks that came in during kernels 2.6.20 to 2.6.24, and which has
better support for 3G USB modems. On the other hand, I still need a
replacement for KDE3's konsole, but that's another topic.

Regards Christoph