From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
michael.pyne@kdemail.net, AAbdulla@nvidia.com, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card (regression in 2.6.23)
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:23:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4967C05A.2070509@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200901092023.n09KN72t020166@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
> On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:20:59 -0500 Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.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@linux-foundation.org>
I'll just highlight this quoted bit for David...
I've already posted a dmi_check_system() solution too -- you just need
to fill in the motherboard details to fix the regression while keeping
others' systems working.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-09 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-09 20:23 [patch 1/4] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card (regression in 2.6.23) akpm
2009-01-09 21:23 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2009-01-09 21:37 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-09 22:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-10 7:10 ` David Miller
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