This is a tracker bug for the upstream e1000e issue that could potentially damage your network card. Additional Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459202
It's better to add ewarn for our users until this issue resolved. Could we do that?
That's a good idea. I will do that and claim the idea as my own. ;) Also note that the package is now in package.mask.
(In reply to comment #2) > That's a good idea. I will do that and claim the idea as my own. :) You can't claim that. It was discussed on distributions ml, I just wanted us to follow other distributions practice: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/distributions/2008-September/000245.html :P
Seems there is a temporary fix to prevent bricking of the e1000e device itself. http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/1/368 The link also follows the thread with other devs and Linus' input. Maybe this should be applied to all 2.6.27 kernels in the portage tree?
I'm more inclined to remove all affected development kernels from the tree once a fixed development version is labeled. As of right now, they remain masked.
So the fix to prevent damage while the real fix is continuing to be tracked down is now in git-sources-2.6.27_rc8-r5.
i assume that rc9 is now considered "safe"?
This bug is marked closed/fixed on the kernel bug page, prior to the 2.6.27 release (october 4th at the latest) so isn't this fixed here too?
According to the kernel changelog the bug is considered to be fixed with 2.6.27-rc8/9
Actually, "fixed" here means it won't damage your hardware. If a user installs the 2.6.27 kernel and tries to use the e1000e driver, it will not function. When it's actually fixed, I will close this.
(In reply to comment #10) > If a user installs the 2.6.27 kernel and tries to use the e1000e driver, it > will not function. Actually it does function. I've been using vanilla-sources-2.6.27 with the e1000e on my Thinkpad X200 since Friday and it works.
thanks for the confirmation
fixed in 2.6.27.1. Not yet released in gentoo-sources
Released in gentoo-sources-2.6.27-r1
(In reply to comment #14) > Released in gentoo-sources-2.6.27-r1 > Nice, although gentoo-sources-2.6.27-r1.ebuild build still has the K_EXTRAEWARN="The e1000e driver is this kernel version is not functional..."
