On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 02:13:36PM -0700, Matt Taggart wrote: > Hi Stable maintainers, > > I am the proud owner of a new Supermicro server mainboard that uses > an LGA1150 socket and supports the new Intel Haswell CPUs that just > started shipping at the beginning of June. The board has two > built-in gigabit ethernet NICs. Here are their lspci lines: > > 00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet > Connection I217-LM [8086:153a] (rev 04) > 03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation I210 > Gigabit Network Connection [8086:1533] (rev 03) > > Upon loading the igb driver does not claim them (and likely doesn't > have what's needed to support them anyway). > > Support for them appears to be added in: > commit 2fbe4526e5aafc9ffa5d85fa4749a7c5b22af6b2 > commit f96a8a0b78548c0ec06b0b4b438db6ee895d67e9 > > Please consider backporting support for these devices to stable. I > expect we'll see a lot more of them hitting the streets soon and having > them in stable (and eventually distro install media) will be very > helpful.
Please read the file, Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for why we can't accept these patches into the stable kernel releases. Also, just use a newer kernel release, like 3.9, or even better, 3.10 when it comes out next week. Your hardware should work just fine then, right? sorry, greg k-h -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130625215944.gb22...@kroah.com
