From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card (regression in 2.6.23) Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:23:38 -0500 Message-ID: <4967C05A.2070509@garzik.org> References: <200901092023.n09KN72t020166@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, michael.pyne@kdemail.net, AAbdulla@nvidia.com, stable@kernel.org To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:44780 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753138AbZAIVXq (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:23:46 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200901092023.n09KN72t020166@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > 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 -- you just need to fill in the motherboard details to fix the regression while keeping others' systems working. Jeff