Subject: [RESEND 1/2] netxen: re-init station address after h/w init

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:13:11 +0530

This is a workaround for firmware bug with 2nd port of multiport adapter,
where MAC address is reset. Driver just needs to overwrite it with the
value read from PROM.

Signed-off-by: Dhananjay Phadke <[email-masked]>

Index: netdev-2.6/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
===================================================================
--- netdev-2.6.orig/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
+++ netdev-2.6/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
@@ -895,8 +895,6 @@ static int netxen_nic_open(struct net_de
 
 	/* Done here again so that even if phantom sw overwrote it,
 	 * we set it */
-	if (adapter->macaddr_set)
-		adapter->macaddr_set(adapter, netdev->dev_addr);
 	if (adapter->init_port
 	    && adapter->init_port(adapter, adapter->portnum) != 0) {
 	    del_timer_sync(&adapter->watchdog_timer);
@@ -904,6 +902,8 @@ static int netxen_nic_open(struct net_de
 				netxen_nic_driver_name, adapter->portnum);
 		return -EIO;
 	}
+	if (adapter->macaddr_set)
+		adapter->macaddr_set(adapter, netdev->dev_addr);
 
 	netxen_nic_set_link_parameters(adapter);

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