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

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:13:28 -0500

Ayaz Abdulla wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:20:59 -0500 Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
>>>
>>> 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