From: Michal Simek michal.simek@xilinx.com
When a MAC address is randomly generated we currently only update the appropriate data structure. For consistency and to re-align with historic usage, it should be also saved to the appropriate environment variable as well.
Cc: Wolfgang Denk wd@denx.de Signed-off-by: Michal Simek michal.simek@xilinx.com Reviewed-by: Ramon Fried rfried.dev@gmail.com [trini: Update Kconfig, handle legacy networking case as well] Signed-off-by: Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com --- Changes in v3: - Update Kconfig help text with Wolfgang's suggestion - Reword the commit message to hopefully be clearer
Changes in v2: - Update Kconfig help text to reflect this change. - Update the legacy path to match. --- net/Kconfig | 9 +++++---- net/eth-uclass.c | 2 ++ net/eth_legacy.c | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig index 7a2d14501881..cabe93c6bd29 100644 --- a/net/Kconfig +++ b/net/Kconfig @@ -27,10 +27,11 @@ config BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME config NET_RANDOM_ETHADDR bool "Random ethaddr if unset" help - Selecting this will allow the Ethernet interface to function - even when the ethaddr variable for that interface is unset. - A new MAC address will be generated on every boot and it will - not be added to the environment. + Selecting this will allow the Ethernet interface to function even + when the ethaddr variable for that interface is unset. In this case, + a random MAC address in the locally administered address space is + generated. It will be saved to the appropriate environment variable, + too.
config NETCONSOLE bool "NetConsole support" diff --git a/net/eth-uclass.c b/net/eth-uclass.c index 0da0e85be031..58c308f33276 100644 --- a/net/eth-uclass.c +++ b/net/eth-uclass.c @@ -583,6 +583,8 @@ static int eth_post_probe(struct udevice *dev) net_random_ethaddr(pdata->enetaddr); printf("\nWarning: %s (eth%d) using random MAC address - %pM\n", dev->name, dev_seq(dev), pdata->enetaddr); + eth_env_set_enetaddr_by_index("eth", dev_seq(dev), + pdata->enetaddr); #else printf("\nError: %s address not set.\n", dev->name); diff --git a/net/eth_legacy.c b/net/eth_legacy.c index f383ccce0b92..e7f53b958b2e 100644 --- a/net/eth_legacy.c +++ b/net/eth_legacy.c @@ -164,6 +164,8 @@ int eth_write_hwaddr(struct eth_device *dev, const char *base_name, net_random_ethaddr(dev->enetaddr); printf("\nWarning: %s (eth%d) using random MAC address - %pM\n", dev->name, eth_number, dev->enetaddr); + eth_env_set_enetaddr_by_index("eth", dev_seq(dev), + pdata->enetaddr); #else printf("\nError: %s address not set.\n", dev->name);