From: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt•org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
jeff@garzik•org, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] r6040: generate random ethernet MAC address when not initialized
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 02:04:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901090204.45766.florian@openwrt.org> (raw)
From: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt•org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] r6040: generate random ethernet MAC address when not initialized
This patch makes the ethernet driver assign a random ethernet
MAC address when the bootloader does not set it.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt•org>
---
diff --git a/drivers/net/r6040.c b/drivers/net/r6040.c
index 6b8bc6d..21d830b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/r6040.c
+++ b/drivers/net/r6040.c
@@ -1138,8 +1138,10 @@ static int __devinit r6040_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev,
/* Some bootloader/BIOSes do not initialize
* MAC address, warn about that */
- if (!(adrp[0] || adrp[1] || adrp[2]))
- printk(KERN_WARNING DRV_NAME ": MAC address not initialized\n");
+ if (!(adrp[0] || adrp[1] || adrp[2])) {
+ printk(KERN_WARNING DRV_NAME ": MAC address not initialized, generating random\n");
+ random_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr);
+ }
/* Link new device into r6040_root_dev */
lp->pdev = pdev;
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2009-01-10 7:07 ` [PATCH 2/4] r6040: generate random ethernet MAC address when not initialized David Miller
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