Re: request for intel/igb backport
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 02:13:36PM -0700, Matt Taggart wrote:
> Hi Stable maintainers,
>
> I am the proud owner of a new Supermicro server mainboard that uses
> an LGA1150 socket and supports the new Intel Haswell CPUs that just
> started shipping at the beginning of June. The board has two
> built-in gigabit ethernet NICs. Here are their lspci lines:
>
> 00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet
> Connection I217-LM [8086:153a] (rev 04)
> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation I210
> Gigabit Network Connection [8086:1533] (rev 03)
>
> Upon loading the igb driver does not claim them (and likely doesn't
> have what's needed to support them anyway).
>
> Support for them appears to be added in:
> commit 2fbe4526e5aafc9ffa5d85fa4749a7c5b22af6b2
> commit f96a8a0b78548c0ec06b0b4b438db6ee895d67e9
>
> Please consider backporting support for these devices to stable. I
> expect we'll see a lot more of them hitting the streets soon and having
> them in stable (and eventually distro install media) will be very
> helpful.
Please read the file, Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for why we
can't accept these patches into the stable kernel releases.
Also, just use a newer kernel release, like 3.9, or even better, 3.10
when it comes out next week. Your hardware should work just fine then,
right?
sorry,
greg k-h
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