From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 10/15] igb: change how we handle alternate mac addresses Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:21:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20091006.152137.141192646.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20091005163058.32487.10125.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20091005163424.32487.97223.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com, alexander.h.duyck@intel.com To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:47925 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933796AbZJFWVm (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 18:21:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20091005163424.32487.97223.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jeff Kirsher Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:34:25 -0700 > From: Alexander Duyck > > This patch allows us to treat the alternate mac address as though it is the > physical address on the adapter. This is accomplished by letting the > alt_mac_address function to only fail on an NVM error. If no errors occur > and the alternate mac address is not present then RAR0 is read as the > default mac address. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher Applied.