From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Haavard Skinnemoen Subject: Re: [PATCH] macb: use random mac if stored address in EEPROM is invalid Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 22:41:08 +0200 Message-ID: <20080608224108.1f73f219@siona.local> References: <87wsl56qob.fsf@apollo.stackframe.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Sven Schnelle Return-path: Received: from nat-132.atmel.no ([80.232.32.132]:55709 "EHLO relay.atmel.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755052AbYFHVKX (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2008 17:10:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87wsl56qob.fsf@apollo.stackframe.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:44:20 +0200 Sven Schnelle wrote: > We should use a random mac address if the EEPROM doesn't contain a valid > one. This makes life on Boards with unprogrammed EEPROM devices easier. > > Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle Hmm. I don't know. How common is this on properly configured boards? Btw, the macb driver doesn't read any EEPROM. It reads the hardware registers of the controller because ARM for some bizarre reason insists on the boot loader passing the MAC address through hardware registers (despite the fact that the maintainer of the boot loader insists on _not_ doing that.) But if assigning a random mac address when a real mac address isn't available is common practice in netdev-land, I guess this patch fine with me. Haavard