From ea8dbdd17099a9a5864ebd4c87e01e657b19c7ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?fran=C3=A7ois=20romieu?= Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:10:50 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] r8169: revert "r8169: read MAC address from EEPROM on init (2nd attempt)" It fails on the following systems: - RTL8169sc/8110sc (XID 18000000) reported by Tim Durack (x86) - RTL8169sb/8110sb (XID 10000000) reported by Mikael Pettersson (ARM) The patch appeared to work on x86 for the following systems: RTL8169sb/8110sb 10000000 PCI (EXT) RTL8110s 04000000 PCI (EXT) RTL8102e 24a00000 PCI-E (LOM) RTL8168c/8111c 3c2000c0 PCI-E (LOM) RTL8168b/8111b 38000000 PCI-E (LOM) RTL8168b/8111b 38000000 PCI-E (EXT) The patch exposes two problems: 1) while not completely wrong, mac addresses are not read correctly from the EEPROM 2) the MAC address registers are not correctly set Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu Tested-by: Mikael Pettersson Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Reading git-format-patch failed