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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2011-04-16 10:15:26 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-04-17 20:56:37 -0400
commit482e3febc2e7df78411005dcdd7621c16b98b088 (patch)
tree93ba6fae8768ddfb20a05f17414f609a6c4dcc29 /drivers
parentdf4511feb76173db872c8845b63179dd15f2b7da (diff)
via-rhine: Assign random MAC address if necessary
Roger Luethi has had several reports of Rhine NICs providing an invalid MAC address. If so, assign a random MAC address so the hardware can still be used. Tested as a standalone interface, as carrier for ppp, and as a bonding slave. Original-patch-by: Alexandru Gagniuc <mr.nuke.me@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/via-rhine.c12
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/via-rhine.c b/drivers/net/via-rhine.c
index 40f394ce113b..7f23ab913fd9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/via-rhine.c
+++ b/drivers/net/via-rhine.c
@@ -838,13 +838,15 @@ static int __devinit rhine_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev,
838 838
839 for (i = 0; i < 6; i++) 839 for (i = 0; i < 6; i++)
840 dev->dev_addr[i] = ioread8(ioaddr + StationAddr + i); 840 dev->dev_addr[i] = ioread8(ioaddr + StationAddr + i);
841 memcpy(dev->perm_addr, dev->dev_addr, dev->addr_len);
842 841
843 if (!is_valid_ether_addr(dev->perm_addr)) { 842 if (!is_valid_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr)) {
844 rc = -EIO; 843 /* Report it and use a random ethernet address instead */
845 dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Invalid MAC address\n"); 844 netdev_err(dev, "Invalid MAC address: %pM\n", dev->dev_addr);
846 goto err_out_unmap; 845 random_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr);
846 netdev_info(dev, "Using random MAC address: %pM\n",
847 dev->dev_addr);
847 } 848 }
849 memcpy(dev->perm_addr, dev->dev_addr, dev->addr_len);
848 850
849 /* For Rhine-I/II, phy_id is loaded from EEPROM */ 851 /* For Rhine-I/II, phy_id is loaded from EEPROM */
850 if (!phy_id) 852 if (!phy_id)