2011/4/11 Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>

> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 09:23:56AM +0200, Franck JULLIEN wrote:
> > 2011/4/11 Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
> >
> > > On 20:21 Sun 10 Apr     , Franck JULLIEN wrote:
> > > >    2011/4/10 Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com
> >
> > > >
> > > >      >      > index 0000000..2687377
> > > >      >      > --- /dev/null
> > > >      >      > +
> > > >      >      > +static int tse_get_ethaddr(struct eth_device *edev,
> > > unsigned
> > > >      char *m)
> > > >      >      > +{
> > > >      >      > +     /* There is no eeprom */
> > > >      >      so return the content of the register no?
> > > >      >
> > > >      >    Well, the register is reseted to 0 when the MAC starts so
> there
> > > is
> > > >      no
> > > >      >    Ethernet address
> > > >      >    to get.
> > > >      >
> > > >      except this function is supposed to return the mac address of
> the
> > > device
> > > >      at
> > > >      any time so after a set of it it will not be true any more
> > > >
> > > >    If I implement the function I get a "eth@eth0: got MAC address
> from
> > > >    EEPROM: 00:00:00:00:00:00" at startup.
> > > >    That why I returned -1 as what I could find int at91_ether.c......
> > > >    Or, I could find something to return -1 as long as the MAC address
> > > hasn't
> > > >    been set.
> > > >
> > > I known this issue I re-write recently the at91_ether and the same on
> macb
> > > will post the patch soon
> > >
> > > It's fine the uperlayer will see that it's not a valid mac so this will
> > > generate a random one
> > > cf net/net.c IIRC
> > >
> > >
> > For me, it's a bit annoying  to get this message at startup.
> >
> > Don't you really think I could have a flag in the private structure to
> check
> > if an address has been set and then return -1 or the address in the
> > tse_get_ethaddr function ?
>
> How about the following:
>
>
> diff --git a/net/eth.c b/net/eth.c
> index 0251e59..c5b346c 100644
> --- a/net/eth.c
> +++ b/net/eth.c
> @@ -167,8 +167,10 @@ int eth_register(struct eth_device *edev)
>
>        if (edev->get_ethaddr(edev, ethaddr) == 0) {
>                ethaddr_to_string(ethaddr, ethaddr_str);
> -               dev_info(dev, "got MAC address from EEPROM: %s\n",
> ethaddr_str);
> -               dev_set_param(dev, "ethaddr", ethaddr_str);
> +               if (is_valid_ether_addr(ethaddr)) {
> +                       dev_info(dev, "got MAC address from EEPROM: %s\n",
> ethaddr_str);
> +                       dev_set_param(dev, "ethaddr", ethaddr_str);
> +               }
>        }
>
>        if (!eth_current) {
>
> Sascha
>
>
Sounds good :)


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