Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:20:03 +0900 (JST) | Subject | Re: NVIDIA Ethernet & invalid MAC | From | YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <> |
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In article <4714E02D.7040804@garzik.org> (at Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:00:45 -0400), Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> says:
> Alan Cox wrote: > >> See the below for another report of this: > >> > >> http://marc.info/?t=119215716900001&r=1&w=2 > >> > >> And apparently some motherboard vendors have their own allocations for ethernet > >> addresses? > > > > We can teach it two ranges. I doubt anyone will be unlucky enough to have > > the one which could be either Nvidia or Gigabyte and have it matter. > > > > The "go complain to the BIOS vendor" comment from Nvidia to me isn't an > > answer. Maybe Nvidia can complain to BIOS vendors but end user complaints > > of that form rarely have any effect. > > That wasn't the point of the response at all. The datum is that set of > users where DEV_HAS_CORRECT_MACADDR is accurately set or clear is vast > majority of cases. > > For the rest, we'll want to look at adjusting DEV_HAS_CORRECT_MACADDR > based on DMI strings or a hueristic like you suggested.
I think we could have kernel parameter as well.
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