This reverts commit 
d2ed16356ff4fb9de23fbc5e5d582ce580390106.
As Thomas Gleixner reports:
  "e1000 is not working anymore. ifup fails permanentely.
    ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
   nothing else"
The broken commit was identified with "git bisect".
Auke Kok says:
  "I think we need to drop this now.  The report that says that this
   *fixes* something might have been on regular interrupts only.  I
   currently suspect that it breaks all MSI interrupts, which would make
   sense if I look a the code.  Very bad indeed."
Cc: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
 
        if ((err = e1000_setup_all_rx_resources(adapter)))
                goto err_setup_rx;
 
+       err = e1000_request_irq(adapter);
+       if (err)
+               goto err_req_irq;
+
        e1000_power_up_phy(adapter);
 
        if ((err = e1000_up(adapter)))
                e1000_update_mng_vlan(adapter);
        }
 
-       err = e1000_request_irq(adapter);
-       if (err)
-               goto err_req_irq;
-
        /* If AMT is enabled, let the firmware know that the network
         * interface is now open */
        if (adapter->hw.mac_type == e1000_82573 &&
 
        return E1000_SUCCESS;
 
-err_req_irq:
-       e1000_down(adapter);
 err_up:
        e1000_power_down_phy(adapter);
+       e1000_free_irq(adapter);
+err_req_irq:
        e1000_free_all_rx_resources(adapter);
 err_setup_rx:
        e1000_free_all_tx_resources(adapter);