sis190: read the mac address from the eeprom first
authorFrancois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:20:32 +0000 (21:20 +0100)
committerChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:53:27 +0000 (18:53 -0700)
upstream commit: 563e0ae06ff18f0b280f11cf706ba0172255ce52

Reading a serie of zero from the cmos sram area do not work
well with is_valid_ether_addr(). Let's read the mac address
from the eeprom first as it seems more reliable.

Fix for http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9831

Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
dsd@gentoo.org notes:
This patch fixes http://bugs.gentoo.org/207706

Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
drivers/net/sis190.c

index b570402f7feda2a06fc975a5aaf82e19b1f45432..053eab669b2f1ef2d64e02595d64e79bd4b70231 100644 (file)
@@ -1632,13 +1632,18 @@ static inline void sis190_init_rxfilter(struct net_device *dev)
 
 static int sis190_get_mac_addr(struct pci_dev *pdev, struct net_device *dev)
 {
-       u8 from;
+       int rc;
+
+       rc = sis190_get_mac_addr_from_eeprom(pdev, dev);
+       if (rc < 0) {
+               u8 reg;
 
-       pci_read_config_byte(pdev, 0x73, &from);
+               pci_read_config_byte(pdev, 0x73, &reg);
 
-       return (from & 0x00000001) ?
-               sis190_get_mac_addr_from_apc(pdev, dev) :
-               sis190_get_mac_addr_from_eeprom(pdev, dev);
+               if (reg & 0x00000001)
+                       rc = sis190_get_mac_addr_from_apc(pdev, dev);
+       }
+       return rc;
 }
 
 static void sis190_set_speed_auto(struct net_device *dev)