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

[Jeff Garzik]

Ayaz Abdulla wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:20:59 -0500 Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.
> >
> >
> > OK :)  I added the above to the changelog for next time.
> >
> > You guys can hide, but this patch isn't going away!
>
> I believe Michael determined that a newer BIOS fixes this issue.


That's a solution that makes vendors happy... but we still have to deal 
with it in Linux.  There are plenty of the old broken BIOS still out in 
the field...

	Jeff


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