linux-kernel - Re: NVIDIA Ethernet & invalid MAC

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Message-Id: <20071017.012003.99753572.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Date:	Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:20:03 +0900 (JST)
From:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
To:	jeff@...zik.org
Cc:	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, cebbert@...hat.com,
	konstantin.kalin@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: NVIDIA Ethernet & invalid MAC

In article <4714E02D.7040804@...zik.org> (at Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:00:45 -0400), Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> says:

> 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.

I think we could have kernel parameter as well.

--yoshfuji
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