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Message-ID: <19003.30424.111356.179256@pilspetsen.it.uu.se>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:30:32 +0200
From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>
To: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@...hat.com>
Cc: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>,
Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>,
Tim Durack <tdurack@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3rd attempt to initialize MAC address on r8169
Ivan Vecera writes:
> Francois Romieu napsal(a):
> > Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se> :
> > [...]
> >> May I suggest that 6709fe9a27e43a4931938fe0d7f2cc5edef31386 is reverted
> >> until this regression is debugged and fixed?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> Hello guys,
> I made 3rd attempt to enable the ability to initialize r8169's MAC address
> on initialization. The proposed patch below works for all my Realtek devices,
> but you had some issues with the previous one. Could you please test it on your
> devices? I would like to close finally this long term issue.
Sorry, this one breaks my Thecus n2100 NAS box just like before.
Here's a dmesg diff from 2.6.30 vanilla and 2.6.30 + this patch:
@@ -158,11 +158,13 @@
r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
r8169 0000:00:01.0: enabling Mem-Wr-Inval
r8169 0000:00:01.0: no PCI Express capability
-eth0: RTL8169sb/8110sb at 0xe0810200, 00:14:fd:30:11:78, XID 10000000 IRQ 27
+r8169 0000:00:01.0: MAC address found in EEPROM: 00:14:fd:10:00:00
+eth0: RTL8169sb/8110sb at 0xe0810200, 00:00:00:00:00:00, XID 10000000 IRQ 27
r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
r8169 0000:00:02.0: enabling Mem-Wr-Inval
r8169 0000:00:02.0: no PCI Express capability
-eth1: RTL8169sb/8110sb at 0xe0814300, 00:14:fd:30:11:79, XID 10000000 IRQ 30
+r8169 0000:00:02.0: MAC address found in EEPROM: 00:14:fd:10:00:00
+eth1: RTL8169sb/8110sb at 0xe0814300, 00:00:00:00:00:00, XID 10000000 IRQ 30
physmap platform flash device: 01000000 at f0000000
physmap-flash.0: Found 1 x16 devices at 0x0 in 16-bit bank
Intel/Sharp Extended Query Table at 0x0031
@@ -250,6 +246,4 @@
EXT3 FS on sda5, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Adding 2008116k swap on /dev/sda3. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2008116k
-r8169: eth0: link up
-r8169: eth0: link up
warning: `dbus-daemon' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use)
/Mikael
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