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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 09:00:14 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Kyle Sanderson <kyle.leet@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] - BROKEN NETWORKING Re: Linux 6.16.3
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On Sun, Aug 24, 2025 at 11:31:01AM -0700, Kyle Sanderson wrote:
> On 8/23/2025 7:51 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > I'm announcing the release of the 6.16.3 kernel.
> > 
> > All users of the 6.16 kernel series that use the ext4 filesystem should
> > upgrade.
> > 
> > The updated 6.16.y git tree can be found at:
> > 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-6.16.y
> > and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser:
> > 	https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Thanks for maintaining these as always. For the first time in a long time, I
> booted the latest stable (6.15.x -> 6.16.3) and somehow lost my networking.
> It looks like there is a patch from Intel (reported by AMD) that did not
> make it into stable 6.16.
> 
> e67a0bc3ed4fd8ee1697cb6d937e2b294ec13b5e - ixgbe
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/94d7d5c0bb4fc171154ccff36e85261a9f186923.1755661118.git.calvin@wbinvd.org/
> - i40e

Any specific reason why this hasn't been asked to be backported to
stable trees if it fixes an issue?   Please cc: the developers involved
so that they know to let us pick it up.

thanks,

greg k-h