Some firmwares (such as PlanetCore) only provide a base MAC address, and
expect the kernel to set certain bits to generate the addresses for the
other ports.  As such, MAC addresses are generated that may not correspond
to actual hardware.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
 arch/powerpc/boot/devtree.c |   10 ++++++----
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/devtree.c b/arch/powerpc/boot/devtree.c
index e1b8122..549463b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/devtree.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/devtree.c
@@ -100,12 +100,14 @@ void __dt_fixup_mac_addresses(u32 startindex, ...)
                devp = find_node_by_prop_value(NULL, "linux,network-index",
                                               (void*)&index, sizeof(index));
 
-               printf("ENET%d: local-mac-address <-"
-                      " %02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x\n\r", index,
-                      addr[0], addr[1], addr[2], addr[3], addr[4], addr[5]);
+               if (devp) {
+                       printf("ENET%d: local-mac-address <-"
+                              " %02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x\n\r", index,
+                              addr[0], addr[1], addr[2],
+                              addr[3], addr[4], addr[5]);
 
-               if (devp)
                        setprop(devp, "local-mac-address", addr, 6);
+               }
 
                index++;
        }
-- 
1.5.0.3

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