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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card
 (regression in 2.6.23)
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:38:56 -0800
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Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> 
> 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.
> 

Either that, or detect the Gigabyte prefix used as a suffix, since they 
seem to be the source of this particular f*ckup.

	-hpa