From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card (regression in 2.6.23) Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:04:47 -0500 Message-ID: <4967C9FF.6020504@garzik.org> References: <200901092023.n09KN72t020166@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <4967C05A.2070509@garzik.org> <20090109133749.59c20e40.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, michael.pyne@kdemail.net, AAbdulla@nvidia.com, stable@kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:34690 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758674AbZAIWEx (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 17:04:53 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090109133749.59c20e40.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:23:38 -0500 > Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>> On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:20:59 -0500 Jeff Garzik 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 >> 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 were CC'd on it each time... Here's a copy from the archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg61096.html >> -- 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? I think he posted dmidecode output. I also think he said a BIOS update fixed the problem, at least according to the mail thread. Jeff