Re: [patch 2/4] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card(regression in 2.6.23)

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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.

Either that, or detect the Gigabyte prefix used as a suffix, since they 
seem to be the source of this particular f*ckup.

	-hpa
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