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Commit 0f50c10d authored by Liviu Dudau's avatar Liviu Dudau Committed by David S. Miller
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RESEND: [PATCH v3 net-next] sky2: use random address if EEPROM is bad



On some embedded systems the EEPROM does not contain a valid MAC address.
In that case it is better to fallback to a generated mac address and
let init scripts fix the value later.

Reported-by: default avatarLiviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
[Changed handcoded setup to use eth_hw_addr_random() and to save new address into HW]
Signed-off-by: default avatarLiviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 822d54b9
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