Comment 126 for bug 263555

Well, those patches were released in the last two or three days -- basically, we have to wait for upstream kernel devs who are capable/willing to reproduce the issue to test the patches, and then consider how to get that code into the Ubuntu kernel. (Directly applying patches? Go through Debian first? etc. etc.)

Another issue is that the kernel freeze is on October 16th[1]. I don't think it would be nice to ship with e1000e blacklisted, so if the resolution isn't tested/approved by then, a release manager will need to grant an exemption to push the release date back into November.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IntrepidReleaseSchedule