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Re: Debian i40e driver broken?

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On Thu, 2018-03-01 at 13:47 +0100, Harald Wilhelmi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> since quite some time I see again and again the following issue:
> 
> One of our machines shows random problems on the network - usually
> a few days after we installed it or did a kernel update. The issue
> can be quickly tracked down to the i40e driver included in Debian
> Kernel (1.6.16). Manually installing a newer driver from Intel
> always fixes the issue.
> 
> We use version 1.6.42 of the i40e with Debian Stable (Stretch) and
> the 4.9.0-Kernel for a long time without any issues.
> 
> Any chance to get a newer version of this driver into the standard
> Debian kernel? IMHO i40e 1.6.16 obviously broken.

Please run 'reportbug kernel' to open a bug report.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
[W]e found...that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had
thought.
... I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to
be spent
in finding mistakes in my own programs. - Maurice Wilkes, 1949

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