From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Pyne Subject: Re: [patch 2/8] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card (regression in 2.6.23) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:50:31 -0500 Message-ID: <200711211850.36744.michael.pyne@kdemail.net> References: <200711212302.lALN2sF8013655@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <20071121154723.34c5f647.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1785084.xTenOpkFBb"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Ayaz Abdulla" , jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Return-path: Received: from hapkido.dreamhost.com ([66.33.216.122]:48655 "EHLO hapkido.dreamhost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753283AbXKUX45 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:56:57 -0500 Received: from postalmail-a4.g.dreamhost.com (sd-green-bigip-202.dreamhost.com [208.97.132.202]) by hapkido.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFFDA178CF3 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:56:56 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20071121154723.34c5f647.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --nextPart1785084.xTenOpkFBb Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 21 November 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:34:52 -0800 > > "Ayaz Abdulla" 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? I have contacted the motherboard vendor about this a couple of weeks ago pe= r=20 Ayaz's request and have received no response. I've also upgraded to the=20 latest firmware for this motherboard and the bug remains. I think it would be ideal if there were a way to detect broken MCP61's (i.e= =2E=20 those with a Gigabyte MAC ID instead of the nVidia one) and only reverse th= e=20 MAC address then. A module parameter would also work but then I'd need to= =20 remember to apply it. :) Regards, - Michael Pyne --nextPart1785084.xTenOpkFBb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHRMRIqjQYp5Omm0oRArdhAKDfQpGcO4OxVQRsrNEKOY+PitAaXQCgulCD hsKOB3B1Xa7jluq5aWyNzpc= =vNA/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1785084.xTenOpkFBb--