From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>
Cc: Konstantin Kalin <konstantin.kalin@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NVIDIA Ethernet & invalid MAC
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:07:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4714E1C7.1090502@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4714E00D.2000505@redhat.com>
Chris Snook wrote:
> Konstantin Kalin wrote:
>> P.S. It's simple to add DEV_HAS_CORRECT_MACADDR to pci_device_tlb for
>> these types of Ethernet. But I think it's not right decision because
>> it would break older revisions of these models.
>
> Any reason you can't distinguish based on PCI ID?
That's presumably what he means, when he references the PCI device ID table.
But to establish that on a per-ID basis, we have to get some idea of the
sample set. You cannot just make the decision based on PCI ID alone,
because that PCI ID can (and does) apply to multiple BIOS vendors.
Jeff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-16 16:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-16 14:10 NVIDIA Ethernet & invalid MAC Konstantin Kalin
2007-10-16 14:43 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-16 15:16 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-10-16 15:43 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-16 16:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-16 16:20 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2007-10-16 16:35 ` Konstantin Kalin
2007-10-16 16:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-16 16:52 ` Konstantin Kalin
2007-10-17 13:08 ` Konstantin Kalin
2007-10-16 16:00 ` Chris Snook
2007-10-16 16:07 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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