Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card (regression in 2.6.23)

From: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 13:37:49 -0800

On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:23:38 -0500
Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]> wrote:

> > On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:20:59 -0500 Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >> 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.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
> 
> I'll just highlight this quoted bit for David...
> 
> I've already posted a dmi_check_system() solution too

What is the status of that?  Where is it?

> -- you just need 
> to fill in the motherboard details to fix the regression while keeping 
> others' systems working.

Can you please tell Michael what info is needed to wrap this up?  And
how he is to obtain it?