[Click] 7.x e1000 on click 1.6.0 w/ 2.6.19.2 kernel

[Paine, Thomas Asa]

        In updating one of my click packages to run under Click 1.6.0 (git pulled this morning), and after swimming through the Changelogs for the last year, I got things up and running.  However I noticed that the Nic driver, if the link drops, will not recover unless the click module is removed.  My unit will be handling traffic, but when I pull a network cable, I'll see the watchdog message for the link going down, but it will not come back up until I remove the click kernel module.
        My production units are running under a ~12/2006 CVS release of 1.5.0 on a 2.6.16.13 kernel, and I *think a 6.x version of the e1000 driver, but they do not have the problem I described.  So, I'm not sure what changes prompted the problem I'm seeing.

  < disconnect network cable cable >
e1000: eth1: e1000_watchdog_1: NIC Link is Down
  < restore cable connection, but no further dmesg occurs >
  < run click-uninstall >
e1000_poll_off
e1000: eth1: e1000_watchdog_1: NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None
e1000_poll_off
e1000_poll_off
click: stopping router thread pid 1307
poll e0f7b360: 3684/920934 freed, 1437/460660 allocated
poll e0f7b580: 8779/5325393 freed, 8329/2658970 allocated
click module exiting
click error: 683 outstanding news

        Just thought I would post this in case there are some open issues that I'm not aware of and to get a thread started.  I'll be doing some more digging as well.

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   Thomas Paine {paineta at uwec.edu)}
   University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
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