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authorBen Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>2011-02-24 03:17:12 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-02-28 12:42:17 -0800
commit85e6b8c5d8be1e901b5402bfe42ce408912ab83e (patch)
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DM9000: Allow randomised ethernet address
Allow randomised ethernet address if the device does not have a valid EEPROM or pre-set MAC address. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/dm9000.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/dm9000.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/dm9000.c b/drivers/net/dm9000.c
index 2d4c4fc1d900..c30935587207 100644
--- a/drivers/net/dm9000.c
+++ b/drivers/net/dm9000.c
@@ -1592,10 +1592,15 @@ dm9000_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
ndev->dev_addr[i] = ior(db, i+DM9000_PAR);
}
- if (!is_valid_ether_addr(ndev->dev_addr))
+ if (!is_valid_ether_addr(ndev->dev_addr)) {
dev_warn(db->dev, "%s: Invalid ethernet MAC address. Please "
"set using ifconfig\n", ndev->name);
+ random_ether_addr(ndev->dev_addr);
+ mac_src = "random";
+ }
+
+
platform_set_drvdata(pdev, ndev);
ret = register_netdev(ndev);