From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mchan@broadcom.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] tg3: Reset chip when changing MAC address
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 18:58:28 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060429.185828.63432613.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1146267335.4780.16.camel@rh4>
From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:35:35 -0700
> Do the full chip reset when changing MAC address if ASF is enabled.
>
> ASF sometimes uses a different MAC address than the driver. Without
> the reset, the ASF MAC address may be overwritten when the driver's
> MAC address is changed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
A little heavy handed, but I can't think of another way to
deal with this.
Applied, thanks a lot.
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2006-04-28 23:35 [PATCH 3/6] tg3: Reset chip when changing MAC address Michael Chan
2006-04-30 1:58 ` David S. Miller [this message]
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