e1000e: fix IPMI traffic
authorJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:45:23 +0000 (06:45 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:35:40 +0000 (10:35 -0800)
commit47ac4b80b1f4d83d66ff6b2417eec1992ac7fa63
tree8a357a0e9615d90fae7f0cb594d82b518e866c39
parent3414be979fa6166cc6c296d0b1dc1f694fceb2ed
e1000e: fix IPMI traffic

commit eb7c3adb1ca92450870dbb0d347fc986cd5e2af4 upstream.

Some users reported that they have machines with BMCs enabled that cannot
receive IPMI traffic after e1000e is loaded.
http://marc.info/?l=e1000-devel&m=121909039127414&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=e1000-devel&m=121365543823387&w=2

This fixes the issue if they load with the new parameter = 0 by disabling
crc stripping, but leaves the performance feature on for most users.
Based on work done by Hong Zhang.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Bryon Roche <kain@kain.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/net/e1000e/e1000.h
drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
drivers/net/e1000e/param.c