Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:49:11 +0200 (CEST)
From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
To: James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.co.uk>
cc: "Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>,
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       "Graham, David" <david.graham@intel.com>, kkiel@suse.de,
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Subject: Re: e1000e NVM corruption issue status
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On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:

> > Many of the reports seem to be related in time to a graphics crash, no one 
> > has been able to give us more detail about how to reproduce.  We NEED HELP 
> > reproducing this.  Steps, hints, anything.  We are trying rebooting, 
> > suspending, opensuse, fedora, ubuntu, and several hardware platforms, etc.
> I would suspect the ipv6 module instead of the graphics. It has a number 
> of bugs in it. I am just mentioning it in case it helps.

The culprit of the bug has already been identified. It has been 
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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