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Re: RESEND: [PATCH v3 net-next] sky2: use random address if EEPROM is bad

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From: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 17:51:51 +0100

> 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.Dudau@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> [Changed handcoded setup to use eth_hw_addr_random() and to save new address into HW]
> Signed-off-by: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>

Applied, thanks.
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RESEND: [PATCH v3 net-next] sky2: use random address if EEPROM is bad Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com> - 2015-09-28 19:00 +0200
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