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From: Uriel <uriel99@gma...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] tracing & bricking the e1000e on Linux
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:49:33 +0100

We don't have to fear about that with Plan 9, the trace device is for
the amd64 kernel, no danger of that bricking anything any time soon.

uriel

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:19 PM, matt <mattmobile@pro...> wrote:
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> Sorry if I got this wrong but iirc there was a discussion re. tracing the
> kernel
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> ftrace on Linux got it very wrong and was bricking the Intel e1000e's
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> http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/304105/d32d3f1f921d9b73/
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> Loadable modules part of the problem
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