This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
e1000e: alternate MAC address does not work on device id 0x1060
to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
e1000e-alternate-mac-address-does-not-work-on-device-id-0x1060.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <sta...@kernel.org> know about it.
>From c407bee8a56d874b91f3e4ee790660959ff1a25e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.al...@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 06:21:51 +0000
Subject: e1000e: alternate MAC address does not work on device id 0x1060
From: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.al...@intel.com>
commit c407bee8a56d874b91f3e4ee790660959ff1a25e upstream.
This issue is present all the way back to 2.6.34 kernels.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.al...@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jeffrey Pieper <jeffrey.e.pie...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirs...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@suse.de>
---
drivers/net/e1000e/lib.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/e1000e/lib.c
+++ b/drivers/net/e1000e/lib.c
@@ -190,7 +190,8 @@ s32 e1000_check_alt_mac_addr_generic(str
/* Check for LOM (vs. NIC) or one of two valid mezzanine cards */
if (!((nvm_data & NVM_COMPAT_LOM) ||
(hw->adapter->pdev->device == E1000_DEV_ID_82571EB_SERDES_DUAL) ||
- (hw->adapter->pdev->device == E1000_DEV_ID_82571EB_SERDES_QUAD)))
+ (hw->adapter->pdev->device == E1000_DEV_ID_82571EB_SERDES_QUAD) ||
+ (hw->adapter->pdev->device == E1000_DEV_ID_82571EB_SERDES)))
goto out;
ret_val = e1000_read_nvm(hw, NVM_ALT_MAC_ADDR_PTR, 1,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bruce.w.al...@intel.com
are
queue-3.0/e1000e-alternate-mac-address-does-not-work-on-device-id-0x1060.patch
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