Re: request for intel/igb backport

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On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 14:13 -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.

As Greg said, this are far too large to be suitable for a kernel.org
stable branch.  But do open a Debian bug (severity: important) and I'll
see what it takes to add these to our stable branch.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Life is like a sewer:
what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

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