APPLIED: [Saucy][pull-request] igb Avoton support and bug fixes

[Tim Gardner]

On 09/05/2013 09:37 AM, Tim Gardner wrote:
> On 09/05/2013 09:16 AM, leann.ogasawara at canonical.com wrote:
>> From: Leann Ogasawara <leann.ogasawara at canonical.com>
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1219619
>>
>> Intel has advised that we pick up the following igb driver patches from
>> net-next for Saucy.  These patches provide support for their Avoton
>> platform as well as providing some additional bug fixes.  There are 20
>> patches total.  All are clean cherry-picks from net-next.  I anticipate
>> these to land in the upstream v3.12 kernel.
>>
>> I have built and smoke tested these patches on local Intel boxes that I
>> have access to.  There were no signs of regression, however these boxes
>> do not leverage the igb driver.  Brad Figg however had access to kit in
>> the lab which does leverage the igb driver.  He also tested and
>> confirmed there were no signs of regression as well.  Please consider
>> picking these up for Saucy.
>>
>> Anyone else interested in testing can do so using the test kernels at
>> the following location:
>>
>>   http://people.canonical.com/~ogasawara/lp1219619/
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Leann
>>
> 
> These patches will show up in the merge window pretty soon. I'll
> cherry-pick them from there.
> 
> rtg
> 

cherry-picked from upstream during the 3.12-rc1 merge window
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com