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The source of the e1000e corruption bug

The source of the e1000e corruption bug

Posted Oct 23, 2008 3:31 UTC (Thu) by nevets (subscriber, #11875)
In reply to: The source of the e1000e corruption bug by modernjazz
Parent article: The source of the e1000e corruption bug

Another issue was that ftrace was not a suspect at the time. I corrected any bugs that were passed on to me.

We were designing a new (more robust) version of ftrace in the linux-tip tree. This new version does not have the problems that the old version (in 2.6.27) had. But since the new version was a new design, we held off pushing it to Linus.

Unfortunately, all our testing of the old design never showed any of these issues. It took going out to a larger audience to have them appear.


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