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

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