From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: venza@brownhat.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SIS900 show warning if bogus MAC address
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:04:55 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090111.040455.260477454.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090111084504.GB12226@brownhat.org>
From: Daniele Venzano <venza@brownhat.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:45:04 +0100
> The attached patch modifies the sis900 driver to show a warning at boot
> or module load time to show a message when a null MAC address
> (00:00:00:00:00:00) is read from the the hardware.
> This seems to happen with newer usage of the sis900 chipset, since this
> never came up before.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniele Venzano <venza@brownhat.org>
Choose a random mac address, as other drivers do in this
situation, so that the user ends up with a usable interface.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-11 12:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-11 8:45 [PATCH] SIS900 show warning if bogus MAC address Daniele Venzano
2009-01-11 12:04 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-01-12 16:23 ` Stephen Hemminger
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