[PATCH 0/1][SRU][F][H][I][OEM-5.10][OEM-5.13] e1000e blocks the boot process when it tried to write checksum to its NVM

[AceLan Kao]

From: "Chia-Lin Kao (AceLan)" <acelan.kao at canonical.com>

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1936998

[Impact]
While probing e1000e, it checks its NVM checksum, and write correct
checksum back if the checksum is not correct. But for recent GBE update
for security, its NVM could be written once for MAC address during
production, so write checksum during driver probing is not allowed and
block the boot process.

[Fix]
Intel provides a fix for it.
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/intel-wired-lan/patch/20210718041031.3619696-1-sasha.neftin@intel.com/

[Test]
Verified on a Dell machine which has wrong NVM checksum.

[Where problems could occur]
>From what Intel told us, the checksum isn't correct is not a big deal,
we could ignore it and it won't lead to any issues.

Sasha Neftin (1):
  UBUNTU: SAUCE: e1000e: Do not take care about recovery NVM checksum

 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c | 18 +++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

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