From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card (regression in 2.6.23) Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:13:28 -0500 Message-ID: <47A8B558.7060605@garzik.org> References: <200802050746.m157ktY9010399@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <47A8A90B.6010602@garzik.org> <20080205105909.fd8c6dbe.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <47A74C7E.8080101@nvidia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Morton , netdev@vger.kernel.org, michael.pyne@kdemail.net, LKML To: Ayaz Abdulla Return-path: In-Reply-To: <47A74C7E.8080101@nvidia.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Ayaz Abdulla wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:20:59 -0500 Jeff Garzik wrote: >> >> >>>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton >>> >>> 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. >> >> >> OK :) I added the above to the changelog for next time. >> >> You guys can hide, but this patch isn't going away! > > I believe Michael determined that a newer BIOS fixes this issue. That's a solution that makes vendors happy... but we still have to deal with it in Linux. There are plenty of the old broken BIOS still out in the field... Jeff