Intel Provides Temporary e1000e Fix

Last night Intel folks posted a patch protecting the card (marking the memory read only, and disabling the possibility to set it read/write until next reboot). That means that it's now much safer to use e1000e with this patch applied than disabling it.

I wonder if this really robust protection against the corruption bug would have been used if Linus had not given is opinion with his usual diplomacy.

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