From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <40132070.4080704@pobox.com> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 20:48:32 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Michael Schmitz , "David D. Kilzer" , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , linuxppc-dev list Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix byte-swapped ethernet addr for Asante Fast 10/100 PCI Adapter References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Michael Schmitz wrote: >>I'm not sure - the card having an OF driver might mean it's a Mac card, >>needing byte swapping, whereas a card with no OF driver would be a PC >>card, needing no byte swap. Or vice versa. Asante probably never built PC >>specific ethernet cards so the PCI vendor/device property could be used >>instead of OF data. OF data is just easier to get at :-) > > > Really? I'd say it's easier to look at the struct pci_dev the Tulip driver > already looks at. Besides, someone may want to try that card in a non-PowerMac, > while still having the correct MAC address. Agreed. Jeff ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/