From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Fainelli Subject: [PATCH 2/4] r6040: generate random ethernet MAC address when not initialized Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 02:04:45 +0100 Message-ID: <200901090204.45766.florian@openwrt.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: David Miller , jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f21.google.com ([209.85.218.21]:32932 "EHLO mail-bw0-f21.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759715AbZAIBEv (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2009 20:04:51 -0500 Received: by bwz14 with SMTP id 14so28273359bwz.13 for ; Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:04:49 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Florian Fainelli Subject: [PATCH 2/4] r6040: generate random ethernet MAC address when not initialized This patch makes the ethernet driver assign a random ethernet MAC address when the bootloader does not set it. Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli --- diff --git a/drivers/net/r6040.c b/drivers/net/r6040.c index 6b8bc6d..21d830b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/r6040.c +++ b/drivers/net/r6040.c @@ -1138,8 +1138,10 @@ static int __devinit r6040_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, /* Some bootloader/BIOSes do not initialize * MAC address, warn about that */ - if (!(adrp[0] || adrp[1] || adrp[2])) - printk(KERN_WARNING DRV_NAME ": MAC address not initialized\n"); + if (!(adrp[0] || adrp[1] || adrp[2])) { + printk(KERN_WARNING DRV_NAME ": MAC address not initialized, generating random\n"); + random_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr); + } /* Link new device into r6040_root_dev */ lp->pdev = pdev;