From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Val Henson <val@nmt.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Yellowfin bug fix for Symbios cards
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 00:26:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BCFAB6F.15D345B7@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011018210416.D17208@boardwalk> <3BCF9FDD.D6586538@mandrakesoft.com> <20011018215429.A18593@boardwalk>
Val Henson wrote:
> Hm, good point. I should figure out why read_eeprom isn't working and
> fix that instead. Maybe the driver should be changed to attempt to
> read the MAC from the eeprom and then read from the registers if that
> fails, instead of relying on flags.
Yeah. There is at least one other driver (pcnet32?) that does something
like this...
probe:
dev->dev_addr[] = read_eeprom();
if (!is_valid_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr))
{ read from card registers }
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-19 4:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-19 3:04 [PATCH] Yellowfin bug fix for Symbios cards Val Henson
2001-10-19 3:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-10-19 3:54 ` Val Henson
2001-10-19 4:26 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2001-10-19 18:06 ` Val Henson
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