From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card (regression in 2.6.23) Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:11:04 -0800 Message-ID: <47A8C2D8.3020603@zytor.com> References: <200802050746.m157ktY9010399@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <47A8A90B.6010602@garzik.org> <47A8AD40.7010007@zytor.com> <47A8ADF9.7060507@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, michael.pyne@kdemail.net, AAbdulla@nvidia.com, LKML To: Jeff Garzik Return-path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:38487 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756186AbYBEULd (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 15:11:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: <47A8ADF9.7060507@garzik.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Indeed, that would work too... though we would need to put out a call > for Gigabyte testers during 2.6.25-rc. > > It is an entirely reasonable scenario for NVIDIA to deploy a fix to > Gigabyte, which would then return us to the same scenario we have today: > some work and some don't. > > That's my main reason for leaning more conservative here. > If they deploy a fix, then the Gigabyte prefix will show up as a prefix, rather than a suffix - no problem. That's actually the reason to deploy that solution rather than relying on DMI. -hpa