From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] sis190: read the mac address from the eeprom first Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:52:05 -0500 Message-ID: <47BC5AB5.8020309@garzik.org> References: <20080218202032.GA2565@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , dsd@gentoo.org, "Gabriel A. Devenyi" To: Francois Romieu Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:48853 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758221AbYBTQwJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:52:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20080218202032.GA2565@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Francois Romieu wrote: > Reading a serie of zero from the cmos sram area do not work > well with is_valid_ether_addr(). Let's read the mac address > from the eeprom first as it seems more reliable. > > Fix for http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9831 > > Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu > --- > drivers/net/sis190.c | 15 ++++++++++----- > 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) applied