On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 11:42:54AM +1000, Gavin Shan wrote: > 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>
Too late now, since it has been accepted, but the subject line says reversed, not reserved. Andrew