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Message-ID: <4714E02D.7040804@garzik.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:00:45 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
CC: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
Konstantin Kalin <konstantin.kalin@...il.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NVIDIA Ethernet & invalid MAC
Alan Cox wrote:
>> See the below for another report of this:
>>
>> http://marc.info/?t=119215716900001&r=1&w=2
>>
>> And apparently some motherboard vendors have their own allocations for ethernet
>> addresses?
>
> We can teach it two ranges. I doubt anyone will be unlucky enough to have
> the one which could be either Nvidia or Gigabyte and have it matter.
>
> The "go complain to the BIOS vendor" comment from Nvidia to me isn't an
> answer. Maybe Nvidia can complain to BIOS vendors but end user complaints
> of that form rarely have any effect.
That wasn't the point of the response at all. The datum is that set of
users where DEV_HAS_CORRECT_MACADDR is accurately set or clear is vast
majority of cases.
For the rest, we'll want to look at adjusting DEV_HAS_CORRECT_MACADDR
based on DMI strings or a hueristic like you suggested.
Jeff
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