From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc: jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com (Jeff Garzik),
torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds),
andersg@0x63.nu (Anders Gustafsson),
arjanv@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mochel@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] devexit fixes in i82092.c
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 21:00:09 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E16mLHd-00079Z-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1lmcsxqhy.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> from "Eric W. Biederman" at Mar 16, 2002 12:27:21 PM
> Please for the Linux booting Linux scenario it is mandatory we get this right
> for reboot. I know for a fact that currently we leave active receive buffers on
> network cards when we reboot. (If you haven't downed the interface). So it
> is possible for a network packet to come in and hose a machine that is rebooting.
Thats a bios bug. Its pretty much the whole reason for having bus master
enable bits in the PCI configuration. The BIOS should have killed the bus
masters.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-16 20:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-16 0:57 Anders Gustafsson
2002-03-16 1:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-16 2:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-16 7:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-16 7:51 ` Keith Owens
2002-03-16 8:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-16 9:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-16 9:50 ` Keith Owens
2002-03-25 19:15 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-03-16 8:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-16 17:35 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-16 17:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-25 19:19 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-03-16 9:40 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-03-22 15:47 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-16 10:32 ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-16 19:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-03-16 21:00 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-03-16 22:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-03-16 22:28 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-16 22:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-03-16 22:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-16 23:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-03-16 23:15 ` Dave Jones
2002-03-21 15:12 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-25 19:02 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-03-24 23:36 Alexander Stohr
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