NET: Fix MAC addr handling for smc911x
authorSeunghyeon Rhee <seunghyeon@lpmtec.com>
Mon, 2 Nov 2009 08:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0800)
committerBen Warren <biggerbadderben@gmail.com>
Mon, 1 Feb 2010 06:34:33 +0000 (22:34 -0800)
This patch turns off MAC address mismatch warning when
optional eeprom programmed with MAC address is not available.
In that case, smc911x's MAC address register has its default
value ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff and it's not a valid address. This
makes eth_initialize() show the warning which has no
meaningful information while environment variable ethaddr
overrides the address read from the register. If there's no
eeprom and the value of MAC address register is not valid
after initialization, dev->enetaddr had better not be updated
and maintain its initial value 00:00:00:00:00:00, which I
think is what eth_initialize() expects. This is not a bug fix.
Even without this patch, the driver works fine. It's just for
enhancing the way of displaying messages.

Signed-off-by: Seunghyeon Rhee <seunghyeon@lpmtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Warren <biggerbadderben@gmail.com>
drivers/net/smc911x.c

index 5d51406f6fab04a150b648dde3ec7a2e0d6bf526..cac08d0a7cccac93058fef90009316f02420114c 100644 (file)
@@ -257,12 +257,15 @@ int smc911x_initialize(u8 dev_num, int base_addr)
 
        addrh = smc911x_get_mac_csr(dev, ADDRH);
        addrl = smc911x_get_mac_csr(dev, ADDRL);
-       dev->enetaddr[0] = addrl;
-       dev->enetaddr[1] = addrl >>  8;
-       dev->enetaddr[2] = addrl >> 16;
-       dev->enetaddr[3] = addrl >> 24;
-       dev->enetaddr[4] = addrh;
-       dev->enetaddr[5] = addrh >> 8;
+       if (!(addrl == 0xffffffff && addrh == 0x0000ffff)) {
+               /* address is obtained from optional eeprom */
+               dev->enetaddr[0] = addrl;
+               dev->enetaddr[1] = addrl >>  8;
+               dev->enetaddr[2] = addrl >> 16;
+               dev->enetaddr[3] = addrl >> 24;
+               dev->enetaddr[4] = addrh;
+               dev->enetaddr[5] = addrh >> 8;
+       }
 
        dev->init = smc911x_init;
        dev->halt = smc911x_halt;