Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 6 Apr 2004 17:50:12 -0700 | From | Jeff Lightfoot <> | Subject | [PATCH 2.6] net/sk98lin: correct buggy VPD in ASUS MB |
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The following patch to net/sk98lin/skvpd.c was put together by Marc Bouget, mbouget at club-internet.fr. He currently doesn't have time to interface with linux-kernel so I offered to work that front.
This patch works around a corrupt EEPROM (VPD?) in the ASUS K8V Deluxe SE motherboard ethernet chipset and allows the network driver to work correctly. We have written to ASUS and the sk98lin maintainers but have not heard anything back.
Does this have a chance to be included in mainline or is there a preferable way to fix these kind of issues?
-- Jeff Lightfoot --- drivers/net/sk98lin/skvpd.c.orig 2004-04-05 17:32:59.000000000 -0700 +++ drivers/net/sk98lin/skvpd.c 2004-04-05 17:33:26.000000000 -0700 @@ -468,6 +468,16 @@ pAC->vpd.vpd_size = vpd_size; + /* Asus K8V Se Deluxe bugfix. Correct VPD content */ + /* MBo April 2004 */ + if( ((unsigned char)pAC->vpd.vpd_buf[0x3f] == 0x38) && + ((unsigned char)pAC->vpd.vpd_buf[0x40] == 0x3c) && + ((unsigned char)pAC->vpd.vpd_buf[0x41] == 0x45) ) { + printk("sk98lin : humm... Asus mainboard with buggy VPD ? correcting data.\n"); + (unsigned char)pAC->vpd.vpd_buf[0x40] = 0x38; + } + + /* find the end tag of the RO area */ if (!(r = vpd_find_para(pAC, VPD_RV, &rp))) { SK_DBG_MSG(pAC, SK_DBGMOD_VPD, SK_DBGCAT_ERR | SK_DBGCAT_FATAL,
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