From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com, bphilips@novell.com,
bruce.w.allan@intel.com, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-2.6 PATCH 2/2] e1000e: don't check for alternate MAC addr on parts that don't support it
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:49:04 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100819.154904.71093624.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100819224410.10079.31067.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:44:11 -0700
> From: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
>
> The alternate MAC address feature is only supported by 80003ES2LAN and
> 82571 LOMs as well as a couple 82571 mezzanine cards. Checking for an
> alternate MAC address on other parts can fail leading to the driver not
> able to load. This patch limits the check for an alternate MAC address
> to be done only for parts that support the feature.
>
> This issue has been around since support for the feature was introduced
> to the e1000e driver in 2.6.34.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
> Reported-by: Fabio Varesano <fax8@users.sourceforge.net>
> Cc: stable@kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Applied.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-19 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-19 22:43 [net-2.6 PATCH 1/2] e1000e: disable ASPM L1 on 82573 Jeff Kirsher
2010-08-19 22:44 ` [net-2.6 PATCH 2/2] e1000e: don't check for alternate MAC addr on parts that don't support it Jeff Kirsher
2010-08-19 22:49 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-08-19 22:48 ` [net-2.6 PATCH 1/2] e1000e: disable ASPM L1 on 82573 David Miller
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