From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] via-rhine: do not freak out due to invalid MAC address Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 17:11:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20110416.171116.226766123.davem@davemloft.net> References: <4DAA12C0.7030106@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, rl@hellgate.ch To: mr.nuke.me@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:42343 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751331Ab1DQALv (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Apr 2011 20:11:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4DAA12C0.7030106@gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: "Alex G." Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 01:05:52 +0300 > via-rhine drops out of the init code if the hardware provides an invalid > MAC address. Roger Luethi has had several reports of Rhine NICs doing just > that. The hardware still works, though; assigning a random MAC address > allows the NIC to be used as usual. Tested as a standalone interface, > as carrier for ppp, and as bonding slave. > > Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gagniuc Your patch is corrupted, your email client turned tab characters into spaces, which makes your patch unusable. Please read Documentation/email-clients.txt to learn how to fix this, try sending the patch to yourself and testing that you can actually apply the patch as you receive it, and then make a full, clean, resubmission of the fixed patch. Thanks.