netdev - Re: [PATCH] via-rhine: do not freak out due to invalid MAC address

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Date:	Sat, 16 Apr 2011 17:11:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mr.nuke.me@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, rl@...lgate.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH] via-rhine: do not freak out due to invalid MAC address

From: "Alex G." <mr.nuke.me@...il.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 01:05:52 +0300

> via-rhine drops out of the init code if the hardware provides an invalid
> MAC address. Roger Luethi has had several reports of Rhine NICs doing just
> that. The hardware still works, though; assigning a random MAC address
> allows the NIC to be used as usual. Tested as a standalone interface,
> as carrier for ppp, and as bonding slave.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gagniuc <mr.nuke.me@...il.com>

Your patch is corrupted, your email client turned tab characters
into spaces, which makes your patch unusable.

Please read Documentation/email-clients.txt to learn how to fix
this, try sending the patch to yourself and testing that you
can actually apply the patch as you receive it, and then make a
full, clean, resubmission of the fixed patch.

Thanks.
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