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DM9000: Allow randomised ethernet address

Message ID 1298553432-30240-1-git-send-email-broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Mark Brown Feb. 24, 2011, 1:17 p.m. UTC 
From: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>

Allow randomised ethernet address if the device does not have a valid
EEPROM or pre-set MAC address.

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
---
 drivers/net/dm9000.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Comments

David Miller Feb. 28, 2011, 8:42 p.m. UTC | #1 
From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:17:12 +0000

> From: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
> 
> Allow randomised ethernet address if the device does not have a valid
> EEPROM or pre-set MAC address.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>

Applied.
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diff --git a/drivers/net/dm9000.c b/drivers/net/dm9000.c
index 461dd6f..3177081 100644
--- a/drivers/net/dm9000.c
+++ b/drivers/net/dm9000.c
@@ -1593,10 +1593,15 @@  dm9000_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 			ndev->dev_addr[i] = ior(db, i+DM9000_PAR);
 	}
 
-	if (!is_valid_ether_addr(ndev->dev_addr))
+	if (!is_valid_ether_addr(ndev->dev_addr)) {
 		dev_warn(db->dev, "%s: Invalid ethernet MAC address. Please "
 			 "set using ifconfig\n", ndev->name);
 
+		random_ether_addr(ndev->dev_addr);
+		mac_src = "random";
+	}
+
+
 	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, ndev);
 	ret = register_netdev(ndev);