From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Philip Balister Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:08:04 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot] Bogus "Warning: failed to set MAC address" on Gumstix Overo In-Reply-To: <20110908144037.EA969140875B@gemini.denx.de> References: <4E68C67F.2080002@opensdr.com> <20110908144037.EA969140875B@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <4E68DA54.4000005@balister.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On 09/08/2011 10:40 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > 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. 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. Philip