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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SIS900 show warning if bogus MAC address
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:04:55 -0800 (PST)
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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.