--- a/NEWS Mon Jul 28 08:17:01 2008 +0000
+++ b/NEWS Mon Jul 28 08:28:42 2008 +0000
@@ -87,6 +87,8 @@
Hassan.
- Fixed unnecessary watchdog executions in e1000 drivers (thanks to
Olav Zarges).
+ - Fixed missing protection for a spin_lock_irqrestore() call in e1000
+ drivers from 2.6.20 to 2.6.24 (thanks to Olav Zarges).
* Removed the "bus validation" routines. Slave scanning is now done any time
the bus topology changes, even during realtime operation. Because of this,
the bus_tainted flag was deprecated and removed.