From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Snook Subject: Re: [PATCH] atl1: save mac address on remove Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:45:09 -0400 Message-ID: <460BC2E5.1040504@redhat.com> References: <20070328205151.A22317@redline.boston.redhat.com> <460BB092.5080001@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jacliburn@bellsouth.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:36196 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753498AbXC2NpO (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:45:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <460BB092.5080001@garzik.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > Chris Snook wrote: >> From: Chris Snook >> >> Some atl1 boards get their MAC address written directly to the register >> by the BIOS during POST, rather than storing it in EEPROM that's >> accessible to the driver. If the MAC register on one of these boards >> is changed and then the module is unloaded, the permanent MAC address >> will be forgotten until the box is rebooted. We should save the >> permanent address during removal if we've been messing with it. >> >> Signed-off-by: Chris Snook > > applied, even though its a hack Oh, it's definitely a hack, but the hardware it's supporting is a hack, so we have to work with it. Thanks. -- Chris