Servus Wolfgang, On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@xxxxxxx> > > Currently, the eth devices are probed in the inverse order, first > au1xxx_eth1_device and then au1xxx_eth0_device. On the GPR board, > this makes trouble: > > # ifconfig|grep HWaddr > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:C2:0C:30:01 > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 66:22:01:80:38:10 > > A bogous ethernet hwaddr is assigned to the first device and > au1xxx_eth0_device is mapped to eth1, which even does not work > properly. With this patch, the problems are gone: > > # ifconfig|grep HWaddr > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 66:22:11:32:38:10 > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 66:22:11:32:38:11 Interesting. I don't disagree with the patch; what do you think about passing MAC address via platform_data? I don't particularly like how the driver is trying to get a MAC address using the prom interface. I'll try to cook something up. Manuel
