From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sbs Subject: Re: IGB driver upgrade Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:02:18 +0400 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:41679 "EHLO mail-bw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753292Ab0F1WCU (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:02:20 -0400 Received: by bwz1 with SMTP id 1so414585bwz.19 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:02:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello guys. Is it possible to upgrade intel gigabit adapter's e1000 driver to 2.2.9? This is the latest version according to Intel website. I've got a problem with 2.1.0-k2 drivers statically compiled into kernel. Surely I can download drivers from intel and compile it as module, but I need to compile it statically Intel drivers do not provide sources for static compilation :( Is it possible to upgrade drivers to igb-2.2.9 in the source tree and allow the static compilation of them? Because having 2.1.0-k2 we experience some strange random freezes with network interface which can be fixed only by restarting network. 2.2.9 module has no such problems but we need to use static kernels according to our policy.