On 09/08/2011 10:40 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Philip Balister, > > In message<4e68c67f.2080...@opensdr.com> you wrote: >> When booting master on a Gumstix Overo based system, I get the following >> messages during ethernet initialization: >> >> Net: smc911x-0 >> Warning: failed to set MAC address >> >> (Note that patch [1] is needed to move the Warning to a new line, >> otherwise it is after the previous line with no space) >> >> In this system, the ethernet chip is loading the MAC address from an >> attached eeprom, so the warning is inaccurate. I've looked at the code > > The warning gets printed when eth_write_hwaddr() fails. > > What makes you claim that this is not correct? There _is_ a problem > when eth_write_hwaddr() returns an error code.
My point is the code shouldn't be trying to write the MAC address, when the MAC address is set in hardware. Earlier, (say 2011.6 but I am not being scientific here) u-boots did the write thing (IE not print the warning). This behavior has changed in the past few months. Philip _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
