Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760252AbYBETN5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 14:13:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757307AbYBETNe (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 14:13:34 -0500 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:47696 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755757AbYBETNb (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 14:13:31 -0500 Message-ID: <47A8B558.7060605@garzik.org> Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:13:28 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ayaz Abdulla CC: Andrew Morton , netdev@vger.kernel.org, michael.pyne@kdemail.net, LKML Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card (regression in 2.6.23) References: <200802050746.m157ktY9010399@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <47A8A90B.6010602@garzik.org> <20080205105909.fd8c6dbe.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <47A74C7E.8080101@nvidia.com> In-Reply-To: <47A74C7E.8080101@nvidia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.3 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1020 Lines: 33 Ayaz Abdulla wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:20:59 -0500 Jeff Garzik wrote: >> >> >>>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton >>> >>> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/