Ack: [quantal][sru][patch] UBUNTU: SAUCE: add eeprom_bad_csum_allow module parameter

Leann Ogasawara leann.ogasawara at canonical.com
Wed Dec 12 21:32:48 UTC 2012


Acked-by: Leann Ogasawara <leann.ogasawara at canonical.com>

On 12/12/2012 01:12 PM, Chris J Arges wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/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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