On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 11:42:54AM +1000, Gavin Shan wrote:
> The initial MAC address is retrieved from hardware if it's not
> provided by device-tree. The reserved MAC address from hardware
> will be used if non-reserved MAC address is invalid. It will
> cause mismatched MAC address seen by hardware and software.
>
> This disallows using the reserved hardware MAC address to avoid
> the mismatched MAC address seen by hardware and software.
>
> Fixes: 113ce107afe9 ("net/faraday: Read MAC address from chip")
> Suggested-by: David Laight <[email protected]>
> Suggested-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <[email protected]>
Too late now, since it has been accepted, but the subject line says
reversed, not reserved.
Andrew
