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From: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite•dk>
To: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux•intel.com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dm9601: warn on invalid mac address
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:24:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874p0bmsl0.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090107045258.GA8071@localhost> (Wu Fengguang's message of "Wed\, 7 Jan 2009 12\:52\:58 +0800")

>>>>> "Wu" == Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux•intel.com> writes:

Hi,

 >> Also, it seems like you're not writing the random address to the
 >> hardware registers, so you won't be able to receive any unicast -
 >> You'll need to add a call to dm9601_set_mac_address() or similar.

 Wu> Good catch. I had wanted to ask why it only works with promisc
 Wu> mode ;-)

;)

 Wu> Here is the tested patch.

 Wu> Thanks,
 Wu> Fengguang
 Wu> ---
 Wu> dm9601: tell HW about random generated mac address

 Wu> Otherwise unicast RX will only work in promisc mode.

 Wu> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite•dk>
 Wu> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel•com>

Acked-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite•dk>

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-07  8:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-06  9:10 [PATCH] dm9601: warn on invalid mac address Wu Fengguang
2009-01-06  9:18 ` Peter Korsgaard
2009-01-06  9:47   ` Wu Fengguang
2009-01-06 11:17     ` Peter Korsgaard
2009-01-07  4:52       ` Wu Fengguang
2009-01-07  8:24         ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2009-01-08 18:45           ` David Miller
2009-01-06 11:52   ` Ben Hutchings
2009-01-06 18:52     ` David Miller
2009-01-07  4:55       ` Wu Fengguang
2009-01-07  8:25         ` Peter Korsgaard
2009-01-08 18:47           ` David Miller

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