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Message-ID: <490EBE83.7030309@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:04:03 +0100
From: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@...hat.com>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
CC: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>,
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>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: r8169 MAC addresses broken
Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 10/28/2008 02:45 PM, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
>> 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?
>
> No, it helped after reverting that patch. I think we don't want defunct 2.6.28
> with these nics.
I cannot agree. IMO the problem was in the first version of the patch that didn't
check for invalid (zeroed) MAC address. In this case is necessary to power-off (desktop
case) or unplug the battery (notebook case).
>
>> If removing battery fixes the problem then it's not the EEPROM.
>
> Agreed.
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