netdev - Re: SEEPROM test patch

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Date:	Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:44:17 +0000
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	Matt Carlson <mcarlson@...adcom.com>
Cc:	Robin Holt <holt@....com>, Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Parisc List <linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SEEPROM test patch

On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 10:21 -0700, Matt Carlson wrote:
> James, Robin.  I looked through the patches again and found that the
> SEEPROM routines were not being adjusted correctly along with the flash
> NVRAM access routines.  The patch below should shore up the difference.
> The patch works on both BE and LE systems.
> 
> Can you apply the patch below and see if it fixes your problem?  (You
> may have to back out David's changes for the mac addresses to be
> restored, but 'eeprom -e' dumps should be fixed.)  If it does, I'll
> post a replacement patch that documents why the code is doing what it's
> doing.

Yes, that seems to work better:  both the mac address and ethtool -e
output are back to what 2.6.29 reports.

James


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