[Bug 263555] Re: [intrepid] 2.6.27 e1000e driver places Intel ICH8 and ICH9 gigE chipsets at risk

[M. Salivar]

One alpha tester has already been lost, at least partially.  When the
problem occurred I sucked it up and said to myself, you know, it is
alpha.  Things like this shouldn't happen, but they do from time to
time.  Now that I see the indifference of Ubuntu devs to people losing
their hardware, and even worse, to the extreme likelihood of more people
losing theirs because of a stupidly strict adherence to release
schedules, I'll never test an alpha outside of a virtual machine again
(your loss, not mine).  I'm not sure yet, but I may be through with
Ubuntu, period.

You should pull all the current alphas, and quickly release an alpha 7
with the e1000e module removed or an older kernel.  It's the only
reasonable thing to do.  Pulling the alphas and waiting for a fix will
cause too many delays, but leaving up the current alphas is just plain
immoral.

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[intrepid] 2.6.27 e1000e driver places Intel ICH8 and ICH9 gigE chipsets at risk
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263555
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