On Friday, July 11, 2014 at 11:42:13 AM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> When there's no ethernet address available, u-boot currently prints
> "could not set ethernet address", but fails to mention that there's no
> address it could set. Make it a bit less confusing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[email protected]>
> 
> diff --git a/net/eth.c b/net/eth.c
> index 99386e3..b72ae84 100644
> --- a/net/eth.c
> +++ b/net/eth.c
> @@ -179,10 +179,12 @@ int eth_write_hwaddr(struct eth_device *dev, const
> char *base_name, dev->name);
>       }
> 
> -     if (dev->write_hwaddr &&
> -                     !eth_mac_skip(eth_number)) {
> -             if (!is_valid_ether_addr(dev->enetaddr))
> +     if (dev->write_hwaddr && !eth_mac_skip(eth_number)) {
> +             if (!is_valid_ether_addr(dev->enetaddr)) {
> +                     printf("\nError: %s ethernet address not valid: %pM\n",
> +                              dev->name, dev->enetaddr);
>                       return -1;

You might as well return -EINVAL here while at it.

btw. I think I should really NAK you a patch or two, just so you can continue 
complaining to me about how noone likes you here ;-)

Best regards,
Marek Vasut
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