netdev - Re: [patch 1/4] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card (regression in 2.6.23)

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Message-Id: <20090109133749.59c20e40.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Fri, 9 Jan 2009 13:37:49 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	michael.pyne@...mail.net, AAbdulla@...dia.com, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network
 card (regression in 2.6.23)

On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:23:38 -0500
Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> wrote:

> > On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:20:59 -0500 Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> wrote:
> >> 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.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> 
> I'll just highlight this quoted bit for David...
> 
> I've already posted a dmi_check_system() solution too

What is the status of that?  Where is it?

> -- you just need 
> to fill in the motherboard details to fix the regression while keeping 
> others' systems working.

Can you please tell Michael what info is needed to wrap this up?  And
how he is to obtain it?

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