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author | Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com> | 2015-09-28 16:51:51 (GMT) |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2015-09-29 22:00:04 (GMT) |
commit | 0f50c10d2683fd2b8a3908c779c5f29bcb3c2174 (patch) | |
tree | a132e3d4f9d3d04a05bccaed8b3d7874613b7a91 /net/dccp | |
parent | 822d54b9c2c18271239ad7d928f1e9c702676592 (diff) | |
download | linux-0f50c10d2683fd2b8a3908c779c5f29bcb3c2174.tar.xz |
RESEND: [PATCH v3 net-next] sky2: use random address if EEPROM is bad
On some embedded systems the EEPROM does not contain a valid MAC address.
In that case it is better to fallback to a generated mac address and
let init scripts fix the value later.
Reported-by: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
[Changed handcoded setup to use eth_hw_addr_random() and to save new address into HW]
Signed-off-by: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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