Re: [PATCH 1/1] r8169: revert "read MAC address from EEPROM on init"

[Jeff Garzik]

Francois Romieu wrote:
> This reverts commit 7bf6bf4803df1adc927f585168d2135fb019c698.
>
> The code has both a short existence and an increasing track
> of failures despite some work to amend it for -rc1. It is not
> just a matter of reading the eeprom: sometimes the eeprom is
> read correctly, then the mac address is not written correctly
> back into the mac registers.
>
> Some chipsets seem to work reliably but it is not clear at
> this point if the code can simply be made to work on a
> per-chipset basis and post -rc1 is not the place where I want
> to experiment these things.
>
> Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxxx>

I'll send upstream if Linus doesn't pick it up shortly...


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