Comment # 13 on bug 1142496 from Takashi Iwai

(In reply to Marcus Seyfarth from comment #12)
> (In reply to Takashi Iwai from comment #11)
> > We can put "P6T" instead of "P6T WS PRO" in the patch.  DMI matching is done
> > for the substring.
> 
> That would cover at least more affected ASUS boards. But as shown in the
> Ubuntu bug report, this problem probably exists also on other Marvell NICs
> and probably on other motherboards (the LAN NIC there is not the same as
> mine but it wasn't mentioned which motherboard the reporter uses). Is there
> a more elegant solution than adding all affected boards to that blacklist?

Please discuss it rather with upstream.  Currently the blacklist is the easiest
workaround.

> Nevertheless I can confirm that your patch fixes the issue for me (without
> the need for the Kernel boot parameter). Hence you can get my Tested-by
> Marcus Seyfarth.

OK, will submit the fix and merge to openSUSE kernels.