Ack: Re: [Quantal][SRU][PATCH 0/1] e1000e: add device IDs for i218

[Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 04:00:22PM -0800, leann.ogasawara at canonical.com wrote:
> From: Leann Ogasawara <leann.ogasawara at canonical.com>
> 
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1081796
> 
> == Upstream Stable 3.5.y ==
> Herton, please consider picking up the following commit for the next
> v3.5.y release.  It's been applied upstream as of v3.7-rc1.

Ack, also queued now on 3.5 tree.

> 
> commit 16e310ae6ed352c4963b1f2413fcd88fa693eeda
> Author: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan at intel.com>
> Date: Tue Oct 9 01:11:26 2012 +0000
> 
>     e1000e: add device IDs for i218
> 
> == Quantal SRU Justification ==
> i218 is the next-generation LOM that will be available on systems with
> the Lynx Point LP Platform Controller Hub (PCH) chipset from Intel. The
> following upstream patch provides the initial support of those devices.
> It will allow LAN connections but will be missing the enablement for
> actual low power savings. This will however at least allow testing on
> early platforms.
> 
> == Impact ==
> This should be very low risk of regression as the patch is adding new
> pci id's.
> 
> == Test Case ==
> Without this patch, these LOM's are unsupported. All you need to test is
> to boot a kernel without this patch applied on a system with this HW and
> confirm networking is unsupported. With this patch LAN connections are
> at least possible.
> 

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