Hello.

On 08/11/2015 05:35 PM, Liviu Dudau wrote:

On some embedded systems the EEPROM does not contain a valid MAC address.
In that case it is better to fallback to a generated mac address and
let init scripts fix the value later.

Reported-by: Liviu Dudau <liviu.du...@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
[Changed handcoded setup to use eth_hw_addr_random() instead]
Signed-off-by: Liviu Dudau <liviu.du...@arm.com>
---
I have tested this on my Juno platform and I can successfully do an nfsroot 
boot.

Best regards,
Liviu

  drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c | 7 +++++++
  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c 
b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c
index d9f4498..c309879 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c
@@ -4819,6 +4819,13 @@ static struct net_device *sky2_init_netdev(struct 
sky2_hw *hw, unsigned port,
                memcpy_fromio(dev->dev_addr, hw->regs + B2_MAC_1 + port * 8,
                              ETH_ALEN);

+       /* if the address is invalid, use a random value */
+       if (!is_valid_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr)) {
+               netdev_warn(dev,
+                       "Invalid MAC address, defaulting to random\n");

   Please start the continuation line right under 'dev' on the borken up line.

+               eth_hw_addr_random(dev);
+       }
+
        return dev;
  }

MBR, Sergei

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