From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton 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 Message-ID: <20090109133749.59c20e40.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <200901092023.n09KN72t020166@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <4967C05A.2070509@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, michael.pyne@kdemail.net, AAbdulla@nvidia.com, stable@kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:38917 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751726AbZAIVi1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:38:27 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4967C05A.2070509@garzik.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 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?