RESEND: [PATCH v3 net-next] sky2: use random address if EEPROM is bad
authorLiviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>
Mon, 28 Sep 2015 16:51:51 +0000 (17:51 +0100)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 29 Sep 2015 22:00:04 +0000 (15:00 -0700)
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: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
[Changed handcoded setup to use eth_hw_addr_random() and to save new address into HW]
Signed-off-by: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c

index d9f4498832a10b400e31b461e3b821d1fe56f714..5606a043063e3a83c5532ea0ebccbaf6fca77259 100644 (file)
@@ -4819,6 +4819,18 @@ static struct net_device *sky2_init_netdev(struct sky2_hw *hw, unsigned port,
                memcpy_fromio(dev->dev_addr, hw->regs + B2_MAC_1 + port * 8,
                              ETH_ALEN);
 
+       /* if the address is invalid, use a random value */
+       if (!is_valid_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr)) {
+               struct sockaddr sa = { AF_UNSPEC };
+
+               netdev_warn(dev,
+                           "Invalid MAC address, defaulting to random\n");
+               eth_hw_addr_random(dev);
+               memcpy(sa.sa_data, dev->dev_addr, ETH_ALEN);
+               if (sky2_set_mac_address(dev, &sa))
+                       netdev_warn(dev, "Failed to set MAC address.\n");
+       }
+
        return dev;
 }