On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 09:03:36PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

Hi,

commit b20a774495671f037e7160ea2ce8789af6b61533
Author: David Ertman [off-list ref]
Date:   Tue Mar 25 04:27:55 2014 +0000

    e1000e: Fix no connectivity when driver loaded with cable out

fixes an issue which affects quite some of the newer Laptops and also
Desktops (e.g. AOI-PCs) which are based on mobile chipsets.

I don't know how far this reaches back, but at least the 3.13 and 3.14
kernels need this fix. Jeff, David, can you tell?

Now applied to 3.14-stable, thanks.

greg k-h