Re: [patch 2/8] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card (regression in 2.6.23)

2007-11-21 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 22/11/2007, Michael Pyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 21 November 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:34:52 -0800 > > > > "Ayaz Abdulla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The solution is to get the OEM to update their BIOS (instead of > > > integrating this patch) s

Re: [patch 2/8] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card (regression in 2.6.23)

2007-11-21 Thread Michael Pyne
On Wednesday 21 November 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:34:52 -0800 > > "Ayaz Abdulla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The solution is to get the OEM to update their BIOS (instead of > > integrating this patch) since the MCP61 specs indicate that the MAC > > Address should be in

Re: [patch 2/8] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card (regression in 2.6.23)

2007-11-21 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:34:52 -0800 "Ayaz Abdulla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The solution is to get the OEM to update their BIOS (instead of > integrating this patch) since the MCP61 specs indicate that the MAC > Address should be in correct order from BIOS. > > By changing the feature DEV_HAS_

RE: [patch 2/8] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card (regression in 2.6.23)

2007-11-21 Thread Ayaz Abdulla
: [patch 2/8] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card (regression in 2.6.23) From: Michael Pyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Partially revert a change to mac address detection introduced to the forcedeth driver. The change was intended to correct mac address detection for newer nVidia ch

[patch 2/8] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card (regression in 2.6.23)

2007-11-21 Thread akpm
From: Michael Pyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Partially revert a change to mac address detection introduced to the forcedeth driver. The change was intended to correct mac address detection for newer nVidia chipsets where the mac address was stored in reverse order. One of those chipsets appears to sti