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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Indeed, that would work too...  though we would need to put out a call 
> for Gigabyte testers during 2.6.25-rc.
>
> It is an entirely reasonable scenario for NVIDIA to deploy a fix to 
> Gigabyte, which would then return us to the same scenario we have today: 
>  some work and some don't.
>
> That's my main reason for leaning more conservative here.

If they deploy a fix, then the Gigabyte prefix will show up as a prefix, 
rather than a suffix - no problem.  That's actually the reason to deploy 
that solution rather than relying on DMI.

	-hpa
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