netdev - Re: [BUG] 2.6.29-rc7 broke r8169 MAC on Thecus n2100 ARM board

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Message-ID: <20090313201511.GA27827@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
Date:	Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:15:11 +0100
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	ivecera@...hat.com, tdurack@...il.com
Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.29-rc7 broke r8169 MAC on Thecus n2100 ARM board

Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se> :
> With the 2.6.29-rc7 kernel I'm unable to 'ifup' eth0 on my ARM-based
> Thecus n2100 NAS box, which has an RTL8169 NIC (10ec:8169 (rev 10)).
> A diff of the kernel logs from 2.6.29-rc6 and -rc7 shows that -rc7
> first mangles and then zaps the MAC addresses:

Can you apply the attached patch and see if it fixes any of these
problems ?

Tim, could you give it a try too ? It applies with "patch -p1" from
the kernel tree directory.

-- 
Ueimor

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