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SubjectRe: NVIDIA Ethernet & invalid MAC
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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.

--yoshfuji
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