Applied: [raring][PATCH] UBUNTU: SAUCE: add eeprom_bad_csum_allow module parameter

[Chris J Arges]

On 12/12/2012 10:47 AM, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
> Applied to Raring master-next.  Also, I tweaked the BugLink to point to
> bugs.launchpad.net.
> 
Thanks, I thought I --amended and fixed that.
--chris

> Thanks,
> Leann
> 
> On 12/11/2012 01:45 PM, Chris J Arges wrote:
>> BugLink: http://bugs.ubuntu.com/bugs/1070182
>>
>> This patch adds the eeprom_bad_csum_allow module parameter for the
>> e1000 and e1000e drivers. This allows users of affected hardware
>> to bypass EEPROM/NVM checksum validation.
>> Based on a patch by Ben Collins <bcollins at ubuntu.com>
>>
>> This parameter was already present in the e100 driver already, this
>> SAUCE patch just adds this functionality for the e1000 and e1000e
>> drivers. This fixes cases where NVM checksum validation fails, yet the
>> hardware still functions correctly if we skip this. This patch has
>> already been verified in the bug.
>>
>>
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