[U-Boot] [PATCH] net: fix warning not initializing MAC address

[Kumar Gala]

On Sep 2, 2011, at 12:55 AM, Heiko Schocher wrote:

> following warning message blobs up, when initializing for example
> DaVinci EMAC:
> 
> Net:   Ethernet PHY: KSZ8873 @ 0x02
> DaVinci-EMACWarning: failed to set MAC address
> 
> Introduced from commit
> 
> commit 7616e7850804c7c69e0a22c179dfcba9e8f3f587
> Author: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> Date:   Mon Jun 13 16:13:10 2011 -0700
> 
>    Add Ethernet hardware MAC address framework to usbnet
> 
>    Built-in Ethernet adapters support setting the mac address by means of a
>    ethaddr environment variable for each interface (ethaddr, eth1addr, eth2addr).
> 
>    This adds similar support to the USB network side, using the names
>    usbethaddr, usbeth1addr, etc. They are kept separate since we don't want
>    a USB device taking the MAC address of a built-in device or vice versa.
> 
>    Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>    Tested-by: Eric Bénard <eric at eukrea.com>
> 
> Fix this!
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Schocher <hs at denx.de>
> cc: 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++;
> -- 
> 1.7.6

We keep fixing this one ;)

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/112361/

- k