[U-Boot] regression: setting the rpi mac address stopped working

[Tuomas Tynkkynen <tuomas@tuxera.com>]

Hi Simon, Gerd

On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 22:22:52 -0600
Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 27 March 2017 at 02:24, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
> >   Hi,
> >
> > u-boot 2016.11 & newer doesn't set the mac address on my raspberry pi
> > any more, so the linux kernel picks a random mac address.  Bisected to
> > this commit:
> >
> > commit b91c6a1209e7da1a7f989d9ac35d0d8be0b7b710
> > Author: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
> > Date:   Wed Oct 5 20:42:11 2016 -0600
> >
> >     Fix return value in trailing_strtoln()
> >
> >     This function should return -1 if there is no trailing integer
> >     in the string. Instead it returns 0. Fix it by checking for this
> >     condition at the start.
> >
> >     Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
> >     Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
> >
> > Appearently this change broke fdt_fixup_ethernet().  
> 
> I'm sorry to hear that. Any change you have a patch? It looks like the
> latter code was relying on the bad behaviour?
> 

https://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot at lists.denx.de/msg241949.html fixes this
problem.