APPLIED: [Oneiric/Natty][SRU] e1000e: workaround for packet drop on 82579 at 100Mbps

[Tim Gardner]

On 10/10/2011 05:46 PM, leann.ogasawara at canonical.com wrote:
> From: Leann Ogasawara<leann.ogasawara at canonical.com>
>
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/870127
>
> == SRU Justification ==
> Many (but not all) devices including an Intel 82579LM NIC have a
> hardware fault that results in packet loss.  The bug reporter has tested
> this patch for both Oneiric and Natty and can confirm they no longer
> experience packet loss.  The patch cherry-picks cleanly into Oneiric.
> It needed minor fix up's to apply cleanly to Natty.  Please consider
> for SRU for both Oneiric and Natty.  I plan to also forward this to
> upstream stable.
>
> == Fix ==
> Upstream commit 0ed013e28fe853244f4972cf18d8e2bd62eeb8fc
>
> Thanks,
> Leann
>
> Bruce Allan (1):
>    e1000e: workaround for packet drop on 82579 at 100Mbps
>
>   drivers/net/e1000e/ich8lan.c |   19 ++++++++++++++-----
>   1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>


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