Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:26:27 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] r8169: revert "read MAC address from EEPROM on init" |
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Francois Romieu wrote: > This reverts commit 7bf6bf4803df1adc927f585168d2135fb019c698. > > The code has both a short existence and an increasing track > of failures despite some work to amend it for -rc1. It is not > just a matter of reading the eeprom: sometimes the eeprom is > read correctly, then the mac address is not written correctly > back into the mac registers. > > Some chipsets seem to work reliably but it is not clear at > this point if the code can simply be made to work on a > per-chipset basis and post -rc1 is not the place where I want > to experiment these things. > > Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
I'll send upstream if Linus doesn't pick it up shortly...
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