[Hardy-LUM] SRU: e1000e-ich9m: no wired ethernet adapter Intel 82567LM Dell E6500 @ ubuntu 8.04

[Stefan Bader]

Colin Ian King wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> Any reason why the following #defines should not be added into
> e1000e-ich9m/hw.h rather than in e1000e-ich9m/netdev.c?
> 
> #define E1000_DEV_ID_ICH10_D_BM_LM            0x10DE
> #define E1000_DEV_ID_ICH10_D_BM_LF            0x10DF
> 
> Colin
> 
> On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 16:52 +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:
>> SRU Justification:
>>
>> Impact: Some Intel network cards cannot be used as the IDs are missing from the 
>> e1000e driver.
>>
>> Fix: The patch has been backported from Intrepid and adds the missing IDs to 
>> the driver.
>>
>> Testcase: Boot to Hardy when 82567LM card is present. It is detected with the 
>> updated driver, otherwise not.
>>
>> -Stefan
>>
>>
> 
> 
Maybe to limit the impact. Probably Tim can answer this as he did the original 
SAUCE patch. I just picked the Intrepid version since that is closest to Hardy.

-Stefan

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