Re: v4.15-rc2 on thinkpad x60: ethernet stopped working

[David Miller]

From: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 10:28:49 +0100

> Hi!
> 
>> >In v4.15-rc2+, network manager can not see my ethernet card, and
>> >manual attempts to ifconfig it up did not really help, either.
>> >
>> >Card is:
>> >
>> >02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet
>> >Controller
> ....
>> >Any ideas ?
>> 
>> Yes , 19110cfbb34d4af0cdfe14cd243f3b09dc95b013 broke it.
>> 
>> See:
>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198047
>> 
>> Fix there :
>> https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=151272209903675&w=2
> 
> I don't see the patch in latest mainline. Not having ethernet
> is... somehow annoying. What is going on there?

Generally speaking, e1000 maintainence has been handled very poorly over
the past few years, I have to say.

Fixes take forever to propagate even when someone other than the
maintainer provides a working and tested fix, just like this case.

Jeff, please take e1000 maintainence seriously and get these critical
bug fixes propagated.

Thank you.