[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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