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Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network
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From: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:23:07 -0800

> 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'm holding off on this until the DMI angle is worked out.