Re: [PATCH 1/1] sis190: read the mac address from the eeprom first

Francois Romieu wrote: Reading a serie of zero from the cmos sram area do not work well with is_valid_ether_addr(). Let's read the mac address from the eeprom first as it seems more reliable. Fix for http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9831 Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <[EMAIL PROTECTE

[PATCH 1/1] sis190: read the mac address from the eeprom first

Reading a serie of zero from the cmos sram area do not work well with is_valid_ether_addr(). Let's read the mac address from the eeprom first as it seems more reliable. Fix for http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9831 Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/sis1