Re: Handling of the e1000e bug

2008-09-26 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 10:55 Fri 26 Sep , Colin Guthrie wrote: > Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > On 16:29 Thu 25 Sep , Jesse Keating wrote: > >> On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 16:12 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > >>> "If your system utilizes the e1000e driver DO NOT install and run any > >>> 2.6.27 kernel. See bug #23848

Re: Handling of the e1000e bug

2008-09-26 Thread Jesse Keating
On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 10:55 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: > > It's nothing super major, but the wording could be slightly better > (although I suspect that the in the context of the reader, this extra > information is most likely implied). > The people reading it as they deal with the package in

Re: Handling of the e1000e bug

2008-09-26 Thread Colin Guthrie
Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 16:29 Thu 25 Sep , Jesse Keating wrote: >> On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 16:12 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: >>> We added a warning to our git-sources kernel package (and soon >>> vanilla-sources), which people have to explicitly install 'testing' >>> versions of to use RC

Re: Handling of the e1000e bug

2008-09-25 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 16:29 Thu 25 Sep , Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 16:12 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > > > We added a warning to our git-sources kernel package (and soon > > vanilla-sources), which people have to explicitly install 'testing' > > versions of to use RC kernels: > > > > "I

Re: Handling of the e1000e bug

2008-09-25 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 4:59 AM, Jesse Keating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 16:12 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: >> >> We added a warning to our git-sources kernel package (and soon >> vanilla-sources), which people have to explicitly install 'testing' >> versions of to use RC

Re: Handling of the e1000e bug

2008-09-25 Thread Jesse Keating
On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 16:12 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > We added a warning to our git-sources kernel package (and soon > vanilla-sources), which people have to explicitly install 'testing' > versions of to use RC kernels: > > "If your system utilizes the e1000e driver DO NOT install and r

Re: Handling of the e1000e bug

2008-09-25 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 12:02 Wed 24 Sep , James Westby wrote: > I'm just posting this as I'm interested in how any other 2.6.27 using > distributions are handling the e1000e bug. We added a warning to our git-sources kernel package (and soon vanilla-sources), which people have to explicitly install 'testing' ve

Re: Handling of the e1000e bug

2008-09-25 Thread Andreas Jaeger
James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I'm just posting this as I'm interested in how any other 2.6.27 using > distributions are handling the e1000e bug. > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11382 > > I saw that openSUSE put out a warning to their users about the > issu

Re: Handling of the e1000e bug

2008-09-24 Thread Colin Guthrie
Hi James, James Westby wrote: > I'm just posting this as I'm interested in how any other 2.6.27 using > distributions are handling the e1000e bug. > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11382 > > I saw that openSUSE put out a warning to their users about the > issue > > http://lwn.n

Re: Handling of the e1000e bug

2008-09-24 Thread Nigel Jones
On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 12:02 +0100, James Westby wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm just posting this as I'm interested in how any other 2.6.27 using > distributions are handling the e1000e bug. > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11382 > > I saw that openSUSE put out a warning to their users

Handling of the e1000e bug

2008-09-24 Thread James Westby
Hi all, I'm just posting this as I'm interested in how any other 2.6.27 using distributions are handling the e1000e bug. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11382 I saw that openSUSE put out a warning to their users about the issue http://lwn.net/Articles/299787/ have other distribu