Alan Cox wrote:
> I'd rather keep the existing initialisation behaviour of using the eeprom
> for 2.2. There are also some power management cases where I am not sure
> the values are restored on the pcnet/pci.
> 
> For 2.2 conservatism is the key. For 2.4 by all means default to CSR12-14 and
> print a warning if they dont match the eeprom value and we'll see what it
> shows
> 
> > Alan, do you want me to put your inline version in <linux/etherdevice.h>
> > while I'm at it, or what?
> 
> Sure

Here is the 2.2.18 patch... I'll send the 2.4.1 patch shortly.

This one still uses the PROM since we are going for least change in
initialization.
is_valid_ether_addr() is static inline in <linux/etherdevice.h>

Is this one satisfactory?

Eli
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