[U-Boot] [PATCH] Correct call to eth_write_hwaddr()

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Tue Aug 30 17:51:00 CEST 2011


This fixes "Warning: failed to set MAC address" on platforms which rely on
an 'ethaddr' environment variable to set the MAC address.

This bug was introduced by this commit:

7616e785 Add Ethernet hardware MAC address framework to usbnet

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---
 net/eth.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/eth.c b/net/eth.c
index a34fe59..2caaf60 100644
--- a/net/eth.c
+++ b/net/eth.c
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ int eth_initialize(bd_t *bis)
 			if (strchr(dev->name, ' '))
 				puts("\nWarning: eth device name has a space!\n");
 
-			if (eth_write_hwaddr(dev, NULL, eth_number))
+			if (eth_write_hwaddr(dev, "eth", eth_number))
 				puts("Warning: failed to set MAC address\n");
 
 			eth_number++;
-- 
1.7.3.1



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