(In reply to comment #53 from Jiri Kosina)
> In fact, testing whether booting the system only in text-mode (so that xorg
> won't be started at all) also triggers the bug or not would also be a valuable
> test.
It is, unfortunately, not that easy. I have rebooted my machine (hp 2510p) with e1000e 17 times since Sep 15 with 2.6.27-rc5-git9+ Kernels (always pretty recent STABLE) and I did not encounter any problems.
So it is pretty hard to prove the absence of this bug.
(In reply to comment #53 from Jiri Kosina)
> In fact, testing whether booting the system only in text-mode (so that xorg
> won't be started at all) also triggers the bug or not would also be a valuable
> test.
It is, unfortunately, not that easy. I have rebooted my machine (hp 2510p) with e1000e 17 times since Sep 15 with 2.6.27-rc5-git9+ Kernels (always pretty recent STABLE) and I did not encounter any problems.
So it is pretty hard to prove the absence of this bug.