Bug#684618: linux-image-3.2.0-3-686-pae: e1000 wake-on-lan does not work

[Dean Nelson <dnelson@redhat.com>]

On 08/12/2012 04:22 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 22:16 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 00:01 +0200, Richard Kojedzinszky wrote:
> > > Package: src:linux
> > > Version: 3.2.23-1
> > > Severity: important
> > > Tags: patch upstream
> > >
> > > In linux kernel commit d5bc77a223b0e9b9dfb002048d2b34a79e7d0b48 made wol does not work on e1000 cards.
> > > Later, in b868179c47e9e8eadcd04c1f3105998e528988a3 it has been fixed, but has not been ported back to 3.2 series,
> > > but that would be nice to include it in debian.
> > [...]
> >
> > Can I queue this up for 3.2.y?
>
> Hmm, since this already had a 'Cc: stable', and applies cleanly, I
> wonder why it wasn't added earlier.  Did it cause a regression that
> requires a further fix-up?  I don't see anything like that in mainline.

I'm not aware of any regression caused by this patch. It is addressing
a regression that was introduced by commit d5bc77a223b0e9b9, which has
been added to 3.2.y. So in my opinion this patch should definitely go
into 3.2.y as well.

(I don't know why it wasn't added earlier.)

Dean