Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000: Don't enable polling in open() (was: e1000: assertion hit in e1000_clean(), kernel 2.6.21.1)

From: Chuck Ebbert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 12:56:06 -0400

Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:42:39PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> applied, though as a poster (DaveJ?) noted, I'm not sure it completely 
>> fixes the bug
> 
> It should fix the problem completely in 2.6.22.  For 2.6.21, we need
> a different fix because e1000_open is directly calling e1000_up.
> 

Is there going to be a 2.6.21-stable fix for this?

Fedora is going to backport a big patchset but that won't work
for -stable.