On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 08:11:22PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> I've been grepping around for things that do their own PCI ROM mapping and
> do it badly, and one thing that matches that description is the sungem
> ethernet driver on PC's.
>
> If anybody has such a beast, can you please try this patch and report
> whether it works for you?
>
> Linus
>
> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/net/sungem.c b/drivers/net/sungem.c
> --- a/drivers/net/sungem.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/sungem.c
> @@ -2817,7 +2817,7 @@ static int gem_ioctl(struct net_device *
>
> #if (!defined(__sparc__) && !defined(CONFIG_PPC_PMAC))
> /* Fetch MAC address from vital product data of PCI ROM. */
> -static void find_eth_addr_in_vpd(void __iomem *rom_base, int len, unsigned char *dev_addr)
> +static int find_eth_addr_in_vpd(void __iomem *rom_base, int len, unsigned char *dev_addr)
While we're at it the cpp conditioal looks bogus. We definitly needs this
when plugging a SUN card into a mac. I'd suggest compiling this
unconditionally and fall back to it when whatever firmware method to get
the mac address fails.
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