Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:35:14 +0400 | From | Konstantin Kalin <> | Subject | Re: NVIDIA Ethernet & invalid MAC |
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Hello,
I'm sorry, but I think that Alan proposed in the first email is more than a hack. It would solve the issue for different versions and the check is trivial. Or am I mistaken?
Thank you, Kostya.
Jeff Garzik wrote: > 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. > > Jeff > > >
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