This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled e1000e: move force SMBUS near the end of enable_ulp function to the 6.9-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-move-force-smbus-near-the-end-of-enable_ulp-function.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.