Commit d1d5741d authored Jun 09, 2008 by Sven Schnelle Committed by Jeff Garzik Jun 11, 2008

macb: use random mac if stored address in EEPROM is invalid

We should use a random mac address if the EEPROM doesn't contain a valid
one. This makes life on Boards with unprogrammed EEPROM devices easier.

Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>

parent 86a74ff2

drivers/net/macb.c

+5 −1

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		@@ -80,8 +80,12 @@ static void __init macb_get_hwaddr(struct macb *bp)
		addr[4] = top & 0xff;
		addr[5] = (top >> 8) & 0xff;

		if (is_valid_ether_addr(addr))
		if (is_valid_ether_addr(addr)) {
		memcpy(bp->dev->dev_addr, addr, sizeof(addr));
		} else {
		dev_info(&bp->pdev->dev, "invalid hw address, using random\n");
		random_ether_addr(bp->dev->dev_addr);
		}
		}

		static int macb_mdio_read(struct mii_bus *bus, int mii_id, int regnum)