Hi Heiner,
On 30/06/2019 19:42, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> Vendor driver uses this code, do you see the related messages in syslog?
>
> if (!is_valid_ether_addr(mac_addr)) {
> netif_err(tp, probe, dev, "Invalid ether addr %pM\n",
> mac_addr);
> eth_hw_addr_random(dev);
> ether_addr_copy(mac_addr, dev->dev_addr);
> netif_info(tp, probe, dev, "Random ether addr %pM\n",
> mac_addr);
> tp->random_mac = 1;
> }
> did the following: # cat /var/log/messages |grep -i Invalid Jun 30 08:54:00 praktifix kernel: [ 0.229213] DMAR-IR: Queued invalidation will be enabled to support x2apic and Intr-remapping. Jun 30 08:54:00 praktifix kernel: [ 23.864072] Invalid pltconfig, ensure IPC1 device is enabled in BIOS Jun 30 10:17:30 praktifix kernel: [ 0.228662] DMAR-IR: Queued invalidation will be enabled to support x2apic and Intr-remapping. Jun 30 10:17:30 praktifix kernel: [ 24.198033] Invalid pltconfig, ensure IPC1 device is enabled in BIOS But that does not relate to your error. # cat /var/log/messages |grep -i random Jun 30 08:54:00 praktifix kernel: [ 0.228092] random: crng done (trusting CPU's manufacturer) Jun 30 10:17:30 praktifix kernel: [ 0.227534] random: crng done (trusting CPU's manufacturer) Jun 30 10:25:53 praktifix kernel: [ 527.540354] r8168 0000:02:00.0 (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): Random ether addr 82:c2:81:10:6b:c2 The last one probably results from my testing with r8169. The compiled r8168 went online later. That also is the only message I found. Thank you for your help in debugging. Regards and greetings from Hamburg, Karsten
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