From: Gavin Shan <gws...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 11:42:54 +1000
> The initial MAC address is retrieved from hardware if it's not > provided by device-tree. The reserved MAC address from hardware > will be used if non-reserved MAC address is invalid. It will > cause mismatched MAC address seen by hardware and software. > > This disallows using the reserved hardware MAC address to avoid > the mismatched MAC address seen by hardware and software. > > Fixes: 113ce107afe9 ("net/faraday: Read MAC address from chip") > Suggested-by: David Laight <david.lai...@aculab.com> > Suggested-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> > Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gws...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > --- > v2: Add "net-next" in the subject Makes sense, applied, thanks.