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Subject: Re: MSI Wind Notebook's network interfaces
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On Saturday 06 September 2008 02:46:27 Pyun YongHyeon wrote:

[ snip ]

>  > >  > When not booting verbose, there is also one line telling
>  > >  > re0: turning off MSI enable bit.
>  > >
>  > > re(4) cleared MSI enable bit of configuration register as MSI
>  > > wouldn't be used. You can ignore this.
>  >
>  > OK, but what surprised me a bit was the fact this line is not present in
>  > dmesg when booting verbose. I would expect all lines from normal boot in
>  > verbose boot...
>
> That MSI information is stored in EEPROM. So you wouldn't see the
> message again if MSI enable bit was already cleard. Since re(4)
> clears the bit subsequent booting wouldn't touch the MSI enable bit
> in EEPROM.
>

Now that's clear to me.

[ snip ]

>  > >  > If anybody had some idea how to fix MAC address initialization for
>  > >  > wired
>  > >
>  > > Would you try attached patch?
>  >
>  > I tried on freshly csup'ped head and it works. Ethernet link address is
>  > now correctly set. Great! It looks like a kind of magic at first glance
>  > :)
>
> I've commited the patch to HEAD(r182808).
>
> Thanks for your testing!

It was my pleasure and I would like to express my thanks for your great work. 
If you will need in future some more testing with this hardware, just drop me 
a line. Just a side note, will this patch be MFS'ed into 7-STABLE in short 
timeframe?

Regards,
Milan