Liviu Dudau 0f50c10d26 RESEND: [PATCH v3 net-next] sky2: use random address if EEPROM is bad
On some embedded systems the EEPROM does not contain a valid MAC address.
In that case it is better to fallback to a generated mac address and
let init scripts fix the value later.

Reported-by: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
[Changed handcoded setup to use eth_hw_addr_random() and to save new address into HW]
Signed-off-by: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-09-29 15:00:04 -07:00
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