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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/via-rhine.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/via-rhine.c b/drivers/net/via-rhine.c index 40f394ce113..7f23ab913fd 100644 --- a/drivers/net/via-rhine.c +++ b/drivers/net/via-rhine.c @@ -838,13 +838,15 @@ static int __devinit rhine_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, for (i = 0; i < 6; i++) dev->dev_addr[i] = ioread8(ioaddr + StationAddr + i); - memcpy(dev->perm_addr, dev->dev_addr, dev->addr_len); - if (!is_valid_ether_addr(dev->perm_addr)) { - rc = -EIO; - dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Invalid MAC address\n"); - goto err_out_unmap; + if (!is_valid_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr)) { + /* Report it and use a random ethernet address instead */ + netdev_err(dev, "Invalid MAC address: %pM\n", dev->dev_addr); + random_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr); + netdev_info(dev, "Using random MAC address: %pM\n", + dev->dev_addr); } + memcpy(dev->perm_addr, dev->dev_addr, dev->addr_len); /* For Rhine-I/II, phy_id is loaded from EEPROM */ if (!phy_id) |