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

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Philip Balister,

In message <4E68DA54.4000005 at balister.org> you wrote:
>
> 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.

Yes, we started unifying the code.  Please see doc/README.drivers.eth

What is the problem with running eth_write_hwaddr() on this system?
_This_ should be fixed.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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