From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Ayaz Abdulla" <AAbdulla@nvidia.com>
Cc: jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
michael.pyne@kdemail.net, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/8] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card (regression in 2.6.23)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:47:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071121154723.34c5f647.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F72FA20C31DD4F4C997B91C5B3690A091A9857@hqemmail07.nvidia.com>
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:34:52 -0800
"Ayaz Abdulla" <AAbdulla@nvidia.com> wrote:
> The solution is to get the OEM to update their BIOS (instead of
> integrating this patch) since the MCP61 specs indicate that the MAC
> Address should be in correct order from BIOS.
>
> By changing the feature DEV_HAS_CORRECT_MACADDR to all MCP61 boards, it
> could cause it to break on other OEM systems who have implemented it
> correctly.
>
Getting an OEM to fix their BIOS isn't always a simple thing...
Perhaps Michael's change should be enabled by a module parameter for
those who happen to have the busted BIOS?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-21 23:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-21 23:02 [patch 2/8] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card (regression in 2.6.23) akpm
2007-11-21 23:34 ` Ayaz Abdulla
2007-11-21 23:47 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-11-21 23:50 ` Michael Pyne
2007-11-22 1:34 ` Jesper Juhl
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