2015-09-24 15:13, Ravi Kerur: > M. Jay(Jayakumar, Muthurajan<muthurajan.jayakumar at intel.com>) and I > discussed and decided to include support for I217/I218 chipsets [...] > drivers/net/e1000/base/e1000_api.c | 1 + > drivers/net/e1000/base/e1000_hw.h | 1 + > drivers/net/e1000/base/e1000_ich8lan.c | 30 +++++++----------------- > drivers/net/e1000/base/e1000_osdep.h | 24 +++++++++++++++----
You are modifying the base driver which is only allowed by Intel. But there can be exceptions. Wenzhuo, is it an exception?

