Lucid SRU, LP562742, fix r8169 ethernet MAC address borkage

[Tim Gardner]

On 05/20/2010 11:58 AM, Stefan Bader wrote:
> On 05/14/2010 11:35 AM, Tim Gardner wrote:
>> The following series of changes are clean cherry picks from upstream sufficient
>> and necessary to correct the bug reported in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/562742
>>
>> The following changes since commit f0819aaf4948e34a44d9d685615ddee74271cd70:
>>    Chase Douglas (1):
>>          UBUNTU: enforce CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL=y
>>
>> are available in the git repository at:
>>
>>    git://kernel.ubuntu.com/rtg/ubuntu-lucid.git lp562742
>>
>> David Dillow (1):
>>        r8169: use correct barrier between cacheable and non-cacheable memory
> 2.6.32.13
>
>>
>> Francois Romieu (1):
>>        r8169: fix broken register writes
> 2.6.32.13
>
>>
>> H Hartley Sweeten (1):
>>        drivers/net/r8169.c: use %pM to shown MAC address
> This one I did not find yet in stable. Looks reasonably easy and probably is not
> deemed worthy for fixing a problem. Have you sent that as well and got any
> feedback? It looks like only being cleanup, is it necessary?
>

I thought it was required so that subsequent patches would apply. If its 
not, then I wouldn't bother.

rtg

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