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| author | Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org> | 2009-01-08 15:04:45 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-01-11 00:03:38 -0800 |
| commit | 9f1136182f732f6e847fc43bd88b579739d5c211 (patch) | |
| tree | 97f375925a18791b266c444443096555c31bf9db /drivers/net | |
| parent | 58854c6b411e9e9f46b39bd7092022f639c41904 (diff) | |
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r6040: generate random ethernet MAC address when not initialized
This patch makes the ethernet driver assign a random ethernet
MAC address when the bootloader does not set it.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/r6040.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/r6040.c b/drivers/net/r6040.c index b59837e80750..8b5d50927ebf 100644 --- a/drivers/net/r6040.c +++ b/drivers/net/r6040.c @@ -1153,8 +1153,10 @@ static int __devinit r6040_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, /* Some bootloader/BIOSes do not initialize * MAC address, warn about that */ - if (!(adrp[0] || adrp[1] || adrp[2])) - printk(KERN_WARNING DRV_NAME ": MAC address not initialized\n"); + if (!(adrp[0] || adrp[1] || adrp[2])) { + printk(KERN_WARNING DRV_NAME ": MAC address not initialized, generating random\n"); + random_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr); + } /* Link new device into r6040_root_dev */ lp->pdev = pdev; |