Re: NVIDIA Ethernet & invalid MAC

[Jeff Garzik]

Alan Cox wrote:
> > See the below for another report of this:
> >
> > http://marc.info/?t=119215716900001&r=1&w=2
> >
> > And apparently some motherboard vendors have their own allocations for ethernet
> > addresses?
>
> We can teach it two ranges. I doubt anyone will be unlucky enough to have
> the one which could be either Nvidia or Gigabyte and have it matter.
>
> The "go complain to the BIOS vendor" comment from Nvidia to me isn't an
> answer. Maybe Nvidia can complain to BIOS vendors but end user complaints
> of that form rarely have any effect.

That wasn't the point of the response at all.  The datum is that set of 
users where DEV_HAS_CORRECT_MACADDR is accurately set or clear is vast 
majority of cases.

For the rest, we'll want to look at adjusting DEV_HAS_CORRECT_MACADDR 
based on DMI strings or a hueristic like you suggested.

	Jeff


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