From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
michael.pyne@kdemail.net, AAbdulla@nvidia.com,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card (regression in 2.6.23)
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:11:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47A8C2D8.3020603@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47A8ADF9.7060507@garzik.org>
Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Indeed, that would work too... though we would need to put out a call
> for Gigabyte testers during 2.6.25-rc.
>
> It is an entirely reasonable scenario for NVIDIA to deploy a fix to
> Gigabyte, which would then return us to the same scenario we have today:
> some work and some don't.
>
> That's my main reason for leaning more conservative here.
>
If they deploy a fix, then the Gigabyte prefix will show up as a prefix,
rather than a suffix - no problem. That's actually the reason to deploy
that solution rather than relying on DMI.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-05 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-05 7:47 [patch 2/4] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card (regression in 2.6.23) akpm
2008-02-05 18:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-05 18:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-05 18:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-05 20:11 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-02-05 18:59 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-04 17:33 ` Ayaz Abdulla
2008-02-05 19:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-04 17:57 ` Ayaz Abdulla
2008-02-06 2:06 ` Michael Pyne
2008-02-06 2:06 ` Michael Pyne
2008-02-05 19:08 ` Jeff Garzik
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