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SubjectFreescale FEC: fall back to random address
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 */
--
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