e1000e Bug Squashed — Linux Kernel Patch Released (Slashdot)
Posted by adminOct 4
ruphus13 writes “As mentioned earlier, there was a kernel bug in the alpha/beta version of the Linux kernel (up to 2.6.27 rc7), which was corrupting (and rendering useless) the EEPROM/NVM of adapters. Thankfully, a patch is now out that prevents writing to the EEPROM once the driver is loaded, and this follows a patch released by Intel earlier in the week. From the article: ‘The Intel team is …