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Message-ID: <49BE6257.5070008@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:29:43 +0100 From: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@...hat.com> To: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>, Tim Durack <tdurack@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] r8169: revert "r8169: read MAC address from EEPROM on init (2nd attempt)" Francois Romieu wrote: > It fails on the following systems: > - RTL8169sc/8110sc (XID 18000000) > reported by Tim Durack <tdurack@...il.com> (x86) > - RTL8169sb/8110sb (XID 10000000) > reported by Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se> (ARM) > > The patch appeared to work on x86 for the following systems: > RTL8169sb/8110sb 10000000 PCI (EXT) > RTL8110s 04000000 PCI (EXT) > RTL8102e 24a00000 PCI-E (LOM) > RTL8168c/8111c 3c2000c0 PCI-E (LOM) > RTL8168b/8111b 38000000 PCI-E (LOM) > RTL8168b/8111b 38000000 PCI-E (EXT) > > The patch exposes two problems: > 1) while not completely wrong, mac addresses are not read correctly > from the EEPROM > 2) the MAC address registers are not correctly set > Maybe it should be better to introduce a module param to disable/enable this feature instead of the removal. Ivan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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