The Debian kernel team regularly backports driver updates to the Linux
kernel in stable releases to add support for new hardware. In the
current stable release, the Linux kernel is based on longterm series
2.6.32.y.
We generally prefer to cherry-pick bug fixes and new hardware support,
but there are so many interrelated changes to e1000e since 2.6.32 that
this seems to be impossible. So I've prepared a backport of e1000e from
Linux 2.6.38, which is available in the git branch:
git://git.debian.org/kernel/linux-2.6.git e1000e-test
The kernel configuration files we use are at
<http://kernel.alioth.debian.org/config/2.6.32-33/>.
We would appreciate any help Intel can provide in testing this, and any
advice on changes that should be added or reverted.
I'll also be looking at doing this for igb later.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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