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

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

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

	Jeff