On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 05:30:42PM +0200, Robert Jarzmik wrote: > Hi Russell, > > With your patch : > - lubbock, mainstone and zylonite boards are working correctly > => ie. all my boards are working correctly > > - the message "ifconfig: SIOCSIFHWADDR: Device or resource busy" is still > there > => this message is here even without your patch, so it's rather not > relevant > => this message is triggered by an "/sbin/ifconfig eth0 hw ether > 08:00:3e:26:0a:5b" command > > So from a PXA testing point of view it's all good, ie. > Tested-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarz...@free.fr>
Thanks for testing, that's good news. You'll get "SIOCSIFHWADDR: Device or resource busy" if the device is already up and has no support for changing the address while the NIC is "live" - we only program the MAC address when bringing the smc91x device up (or resetting it after a timeout). See net/ethernet/eth.c::eth_prepare_mac_addr_change() and smc_enable(). -- RMK's Patch system: http://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.6Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net.
