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

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[intrepid] 2.6.27 e1000e driver places Intel ICH8 and ICH9 gigE chipsets at risk
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263555
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