https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=...
The additional hardware support would be helpful in the 4.4 long term tree.
e1000e: Initial support for KabeLake i219 (4) and i219 (5) are the next LOM generations that will be available on the next Intel platform (KabeLake). This patch provides the initial support for the devices.
Signed-off-by: Raanan Avargil raanan.avargil@intel.com Tested-by: Aaron Brown aaron.f.brown@intel.com Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 02:34:17PM -0500, Pat Riehecky wrote:
Does this patch work properly on 4.4.y for this hardware with just this patch?
Also, always cc: the authors of the patch when asking for them to be added to stable, to get their opinion/objection if needed.
thanks,
greg k-h
On Thu, 2019-03-14 at 14:54 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
I see that you do not have this commit on the 4.4.y tree:
f3ed935de059 e1000e: initial support for i219-LM (3)
Which is causing the issues that Greg is seeing. This commit is not a "simple" add new device id type of patch. This commit would be a hard requirement for the other commit to be applied.
I am fine with both being applied, but this second commit adds code for properly accessing the NVM for e1000_pch_spt devices (which all the i219 devices are).
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 03:53:29PM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
Yeah, that's not worth it. Just use 4.9, or really 4.14, or even more realistic, 4.19 instead. Especially for any system that might be using this type of network card, you should NOT be using 4.4 or 4.9 there at the moment anyway.
thanks,
greg k-h
On Thu, 2019-03-14 at 16:25 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
Or you can download our out-of-tree driver from http://e1000.sourceforge.net project, that driver has all the necessary kernel compat code to run the driver on older kernels like 4.4.
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