On 09/08/2011 10:40 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Dear Philip Balister,
In message4E68C67F.2080002@opensdr.com you wrote:
When booting master on a Gumstix Overo based system, I get the following messages during ethernet initialization:
Net: smc911x-0 Warning: failed to set MAC address
(Note that patch [1] is needed to move the Warning to a new line, otherwise it is after the previous line with no space)
In this system, the ethernet chip is loading the MAC address from an attached eeprom, so the warning is inaccurate. I've looked at the code
The warning gets printed when eth_write_hwaddr() fails.
What makes you claim that this is not correct? There _is_ a problem when eth_write_hwaddr() returns an error code.
My point is the code shouldn't be trying to write the MAC address, when the MAC address is set in hardware. Earlier, (say 2011.6 but I am not being scientific here) u-boots did the write thing (IE not print the warning). This behavior has changed in the past few months.
Philip