[Xenial snapdragon][PATCH 0/1] Support reading MAC addresses from files for smsc75xx
Wen-chien Jesse Sung
jesse.sung at canonical.com
Thu Jun 28 09:01:01 UTC 2018
BugLink: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1779035
Currently the driver reads MAC address from EEPROM. If the content is
invalid, it then generates a random address. On a platform we have,
the EEPROM is not reliable, and a consistent MAC address is required.
One way to overcome this is to read the address from a file if it exists.
Wen-chien Jesse Sung (1):
UBUNTU: SAUCE: smsc75xx: read MAC address from file if it exists
drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)
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2.17.1
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