ACK: igb: cherry-pick fix for link negotation (LP #865523)

[Tim Gardner]

On 12/05/2011 04:53 PM, dann frazier wrote:
> Please cherry-pick this change into the oneiric kernel:
>
> commit 2c670b5bd794ef93c81bf8797b7d6393c8453fc6
> Author: Carolyn Wyborny<carolyn.wyborny at intel.com>
> Date:   Tue May 24 06:52:51 2011 +0000
>
>      igb: Add support of SerDes Forced mode for certain hardware
>
>      This patch changes the serdes link code to support a forced mode for
>      some hardware, based on bit set in EEPROM.
>
>      Signed-off-by: Carolyn Wyborny<carolyn.wyborny at intel.com>
>      Tested-by: Jeff Pieper<jeffrey.e.pieper at intel.com>
>      Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher<jeffrey.t.kirsher at intel.com>
>

This needs an SRU and buglink.
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com