netdev - [PATCH] sis900: print warning if MAC address is not available

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Date:	Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:22:43 +0100
From:	Daniele Venzano <venza@...wnhat.org>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	erik.andren@...il.com
Subject: [PATCH] sis900: print warning if MAC address is not available

The attached patch prints a warning if the MAC address is all 0s in the
sis900 driver.

The patch prints a warning whenever the MAC address read from the
hardware is composed of all zeros.
If the address cannot be read at all for some reason, the driver is
already doing the right thing and bails out.
In reference to bug 11649 from bugzilla.

Please test this patch, it is trivial, but I only test-compiled it since
I no longer have the hardware.

Signed-off-by: Daniele Venzano <linux@...wnhat.org>

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