From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.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, 9 Jan 2009 13:37:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090109133749.59c20e40.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4967C05A.2070509@garzik.org>
On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:23:38 -0500
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
> > 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
What is the status of that? Where is it?
> -- 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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-09 21:38 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
2009-01-09 21:37 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-01-09 22:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-10 7:10 ` David Miller
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