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

[Ayaz Abdulla]

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.

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