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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:40:37 +0200
Subject: [U-Boot] Bogus "Warning: failed to set MAC address" on Gumstix
	Overo
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Dear Philip Balister,

In message <4E68C67F.2080002@opensdr.com> you wrote:
> When booting master on a Gumstix Overo based system, I get the following 
> messages during ethernet initialization:
> 
> Net:   smc911x-0
> Warning: failed to set MAC address
> 
> (Note that patch [1] is needed to move the Warning to a new line, 
> otherwise it is after the previous line with no space)
> 
> In this system, the ethernet chip is loading the MAC address from an 
> attached eeprom, so the warning is inaccurate. I've looked at the code 

The warning gets printed when eth_write_hwaddr() fails.

What makes you claim that this is not correct?  There _is_ a problem
when eth_write_hwaddr() returns an error code.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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