netdev - Re: [patch 2/4] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card (regression in 2.6.23)

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Message-ID: <47A8B558.7060605@garzik.org>
Date:	Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:13:28 -0500
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@...dia.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	michael.pyne@...mail.net, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card
 (regression in 2.6.23)

Ayaz Abdulla wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:20:59 -0500 Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
>>>
>>> NAK - this fixes one set of users, and breaks a working set of users.
>>>
>>> Need to add DMI check for the specific motherboard 
>>> (dmi_check_system), and flip flag according to success/failure of 
>>> that check.
>>
>>
>> OK :)  I added the above to the changelog for next time.
>>
>> You guys can hide, but this patch isn't going away!
> 
> I believe Michael determined that a newer BIOS fixes this issue.


That's a solution that makes vendors happy... but we still have to deal 
with it in Linux.  There are plenty of the old broken BIOS still out in 
the field...

	Jeff


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