From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751983AbaEAE7e (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2014 00:59:34 -0400 Received: from us01smtprelay-2.synopsys.com ([198.182.44.111]:58429 "EHLO smtprelay.synopsys.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751713AbaEAE7c (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2014 00:59:32 -0400 Message-ID: <5361D479.5010709@synopsys.com> Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 10:28:33 +0530 From: Vineet Gupta User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.network To: Max Schwarz , "David S. Miller" CC: Alexey Brodkin , , , Heiko Stuebner Subject: Re: [PATCH] arc_emac: write initial MAC address from devicetree to hw References: <1664530.jeK9vBIgft@typ> In-Reply-To: <1664530.jeK9vBIgft@typ> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.12.196.93] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 18 April 2014 05:47 AM, Max Schwarz wrote: > I recently noticed this problem on the Radxa Rock board. I'm not > sure how this has ever worked on other platforms, though. I can > only receive broadcast packets without configuring the address. > > Running ifconfig eth0 hw ether XYZ or applying the patch fixes > the problem for me. Our rcS script would always do a ifconfig hw, hence we didn't run into this. We have used this driver in one of our FPGA boards for several years. -Vineet