Re: [PATCH 2/2] r8169: revert "r8169: read MAC address from EEPROM on init (2nd attempt)"

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From: Mikael Pettersson
Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 5:53 pm

Francois Romieu writes:
 > It fails on the following systems:
 > - RTL8169sc/8110sc (XID 18000000)
 >   reported by Tim Durack <tdurack@gmail.com> (x86)
 > - RTL8169sb/8110sb (XID 10000000)
 >   reported by Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> (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 <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>

Thanks. With these two patches applied 2.6.29-rc8 now works fine
with the r8169 in my NAS box.

Tested-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
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