The post is titled "e1000e and the joy of development kernels" This is hardly a matter of 'improper config'! Why on EARTH are you running DEVELOPMENT KERNELS

The post is titled "e1000e and the joy of development kernels" This is hardly a matter of 'improper config'! Why on EARTH are you running DEVELOPMENT KERNELS (not just talking about newish kernels) on your bare hardware? Is that something normal users would do? Why? How would they even acquire and install them? How do you expect to ensure that bleeding edge open source development drivers cannot be used to do stupid things? Some kind of legal prohibition on making any drivers until you have been vetted by some central committee?