[Intel-wired-lan] Regression: e1000e link not coming up

[Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>]

On Sat, 2019-11-16 at 12:50 +0100, Jan Janssen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> since 5.3 my I219-V network interface sometimes doesn't come up when
> booting
> or resuming from suspend. This either forces me to use "ip link
> down/up" or
> reloading the module to get working internet.
> 
> I reported this issue previously to netdev at vger.kernel.org where I
> initially
> bisected to a wrong commit. After finding the right one nobody
> reacted to it,
> so now I am trying this again here.

I apologize, this is the correct mailing list for issues with the Intel
wired LAN.


> There is also a bugzilla entry for this, but it seems to be ignored
> by
> maintainers too: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205067
> For me, this happens with systemd-networkd, but the people in the
> bugzilla
> report are observing this with NetworkManager.
> 
> The commit introducing the bug is
> 59653e6497d16f7ac1d9db088f3959f57ee8c3db
> (e1000e: Make watchdog use delayed work) and reverting it did make
> this bug go
> away. Though, it cannot be reverted automatically on the latest git
> tree from
> Torvalds anymore.

I will work with the e1000e driver lead (Sasha Neftin) to work up a
patch that will apply to David Miller's net tree.  I will make sure you
are CC'd on the patch, so you will know when it makes it into the
upstream kernel.

> I've also tried the master branch on jkirsher/net-queue.git  and
> jkirsher/next-queue.git, but the bug is still present there too.
> 
> This bug is really annoying and inconvenient, so I would really
> appreciate if
> somebody could fix this bug or at least have the offending commit
> reverted.
> 
> Regards,
> Jan
> 
> 

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