From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] Bogus "Warning: failed to set MAC address" on Gumstix Overo
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:17:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110908151716.7364E1408767@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E68DA54.4000005@balister.org>
Dear Philip Balister,
In message <4E68DA54.4000005@balister.org> you wrote:
>
> My point is the code shouldn't be trying to write the MAC address, when
> the MAC address is set in hardware. Earlier, (say 2011.6 but I am not
> being scientific here) u-boots did the write thing (IE not print the
> warning). This behavior has changed in the past few months.
Yes, we started unifying the code. Please see doc/README.drivers.eth
What is the problem with running eth_write_hwaddr() on this system?
_This_ should be fixed.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-08 13:43 [U-Boot] Bogus "Warning: failed to set MAC address" on Gumstix Overo Philip Balister
2011-09-08 14:40 ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-09-08 15:08 ` Philip Balister
2011-09-08 15:17 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
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