Subject: Re: e1000: "fix" it on thinkpad x60 / eeprom checksum read fails

From: Theodore Tso <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:12:39 -0400

On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 06:41:05AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > It's completely not acceptable to run when the EEPROM checksum fails - you 
> > might even be running with the wrong MAC address, or worse. Lets fix this the 
> > right way instead.
> 
> A printk which helps the user to understand all this saga would be very nice.
> -

And if someone who understands all of these details could put a note
in the thinkwiki (say, here:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Ethernet_Controllers#Intel_Gigabit_.2810.2F100.2F1000.29)
it would be greatly appreciated.

						- Ted