Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sun, 31 Mar 2013 23:06:05 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Freescale FEC: fall back to random address |
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If there's no valid ethernet address, fall back to randomly generated one.
(Yes, I need to get newer u-boot for the board, but as the only available one is from 2009... this might be good idea).
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>
index e3f3937..5a7d1e1 100644 pp--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec.c @@ -906,6 +914,16 @@ static void fec_get_mac(struct net_device *ndev) iap = &tmpaddr[0]; } + /* + * 5) random mac address + */ + if (!is_valid_ether_addr(iap)) { + /* Report it and use a random ethernet address instead */ + netdev_err(ndev, "Invalid MAC address: %pM\n", iap); + random_ether_addr(iap); + netdev_info(ndev, "Using random MAC address: %pM\n", iap); + } + memcpy(ndev->dev_addr, iap, ETH_ALEN); /* Adjust MAC if using macaddr */ -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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