Jeff Kirsher says:
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Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2015-03-20
This series contains updates to ixgb, e1000e, igb and igbvf.
Eliezer and Todd provide patches to fix a potential issue found during code
inspection. When bringing down an interface netif_carrier_off() should
be one of the first things we do, since this will prevent the stack from
queueing more packets to this interface.
Yanir provides a fix for e1000e that was found in validating i219,
where the call to e1000e_write_protect_nvm_ich8lan() is no longer
supported in newer hardware. Access to these registers causes a
system freeze in early steppings and is ignored in later steppings.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>