This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    e1000e: alternate MAC address does not work on device id 0x1060

to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     e1000e-alternate-mac-address-does-not-work-on-device-id-0x1060.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From c407bee8a56d874b91f3e4ee790660959ff1a25e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Allan <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 06:21:51 +0000
Subject: e1000e: alternate MAC address does not work on device id 0x1060

From: Bruce Allan <[email protected]>

commit c407bee8a56d874b91f3e4ee790660959ff1a25e upstream.

This issue is present all the way back to 2.6.34 kernels.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Jeffrey Pieper <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/net/e1000e/lib.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/e1000e/lib.c
+++ b/drivers/net/e1000e/lib.c
@@ -190,7 +190,8 @@ s32 e1000_check_alt_mac_addr_generic(str
        /* Check for LOM (vs. NIC) or one of two valid mezzanine cards */
        if (!((nvm_data & NVM_COMPAT_LOM) ||
              (hw->adapter->pdev->device == E1000_DEV_ID_82571EB_SERDES_DUAL) ||
-             (hw->adapter->pdev->device == E1000_DEV_ID_82571EB_SERDES_QUAD)))
+             (hw->adapter->pdev->device == E1000_DEV_ID_82571EB_SERDES_QUAD) ||
+             (hw->adapter->pdev->device == E1000_DEV_ID_82571EB_SERDES)))
                goto out;
 
        ret_val = e1000_read_nvm(hw, NVM_ALT_MAC_ADDR_PTR, 1,


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] 
are

queue-3.0/e1000e-alternate-mac-address-does-not-work-on-device-id-0x1060.patch

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