netdev - Re: r8169 MAC addresses broken

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Date:	Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:45:27 +0100
From:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Cc:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>,
	Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Edward Hsu <edward_hsu@...ltek.com.tw>,
	Ivan Vecera <ivecera@...hat.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: r8169 MAC addresses broken

Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com> writes:

>> Same thing if you unplug the battery ?
>
> Thanks, now it seems to be OK.

Well, perhaps reverting that patch was a bit premature?

If removing battery fixes the problem then it's not the EEPROM.
Perhaps the chip can go into some VPD-zeroed state? The first
32-bits corruption seems unrelated to the patch, it still needs
bisecting or debugging, right?
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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