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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 }

-- 
Jeff Garzik      | Only so many songs can be sung
Building 1024    | with two lips, two lungs, and one tongue.
MandrakeSoft     |         - nomeansno

  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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