Re: NVIDIA Ethernet & invalid MAC

[Konstantin Kalin]

Hello,

I'm sorry, but I think that Alan proposed in the first email is more 
than a hack. It would solve the issue for different versions and the 
check is trivial. Or am I mistaken?

Thank you,
Kostya.

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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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