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Re: [PATCH] smsc75xx: only set mac address once on bind

From: Dan Williams <hidden>
Date: 2012-12-10 22:59:03

On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 11:01 +0000, Steve Glendinning wrote:
This patch changes when we decide what the device's MAC address
is from per ifconfig up to once when the device is connected.

Without this patch, a manually forced device MAC is overwritten
on ifconfig down/up.  Also devices that have no EEPROM are
assigned a new random address on ifconfig down/up instead of
persisting the same one.
Does this mean that on devices without EEPROM, ifconfig XXX
down/ifconfig XXX up will generate a *new* random address?  That seems a
bit odd; why wouldn't the first random address generated for the device
persist until either (a) changed by ifconfig or (b) device was
disconnected?

Dan
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Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@shawell.net>
Reported-by: Robert Cunningham <redacted>
Cc: Bjorn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Cc: Dan Williams <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c |   10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c b/drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c
index 1cbd936..251a335 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/smsc75xx.c
@@ -1054,8 +1054,6 @@ static int smsc75xx_reset(struct usbnet *dev)
 
 	netif_dbg(dev, ifup, dev->net, "PHY reset complete\n");
 
-	smsc75xx_init_mac_address(dev);
-
 	ret = smsc75xx_set_mac_address(dev);
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		netdev_warn(dev->net, "Failed to set mac address\n");
@@ -1422,6 +1420,14 @@ static int smsc75xx_bind(struct usbnet *dev, struct usb_interface *intf)
 	dev->net->hw_features = NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM |
 		NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_TSO | NETIF_F_TSO6 | NETIF_F_RXCSUM;
 
+	ret = smsc75xx_wait_ready(dev, 0);
+	if (ret < 0) {
+		netdev_warn(dev->net, "device not ready in smsc75xx_bind\n");
+		return ret;
+	}
+
+	smsc75xx_init_mac_address(dev);
+
 	/* Init all registers */
 	ret = smsc75xx_reset(dev);
 	if (ret < 0) {
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