Subject: Re: [PATCH] dm9601: warn on invalid mac address

From: Peter Korsgaard <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:24:43 +0100

>>>>> "Wu" == Wu Fengguang <[email-masked]> 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 <[email-masked]>
 Wu> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <[email-masked]>

Acked-by: Peter Korsgaard <[email-masked]>

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Bye, Peter Korsgaard