[U-Boot] Bogus "Warning: failed to set MAC address" on Gumstix Overo

[Philip Balister]

On 09/08/2011 10:40 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Philip Balister,
>
> In message<4E68C67F.2080002 at 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