Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] e1000: always call e1000_check_for_link() on e1000_ce4100 MACs.

From: Greg KH <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 07:10:49 -0700

On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 03:16:57PM +0200, [email-masked] wrote:
> From: Nicolas Schichan <[email-masked]>
> 
> Interrupts about link lost or rx sequence errors are not reported by
> the ce4100 hardware, leading to transitions from link UP to link DOWN
> never being reported.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schichan <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c |   11 +++++++----
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree.  Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
for how to do this properly.

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