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| author | Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> | 2011-12-20 01:22:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> | 2012-01-27 00:07:38 +0000 |
| commit | e332bcb3d149644c344ee5fdf1f6e4ac39e9d9a3 (patch) | |
| tree | 0a935bf3dc0d6242f161a1ffa752009078da4bf9 /drivers/net/ethernet/sfc | |
| parent | cdb08f8fd8642a6d661c920f565e85cf87a0c9be (diff) | |
sfc: Remove fallback for invalid permanent MAC address
By the time we look at the MAC address in efx_probe_port(), either the
driver or the firmware has already validated the board configuration.
The possibility of having an invalid MAC address just isn't worth
considering. It certainly isn't worth having a compile-time option
for this.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/sfc')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c | 32 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 30 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c index d7301d2e81a..eff5d300aa0 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c @@ -122,15 +122,6 @@ static int napi_weight = 64; */ static unsigned int efx_monitor_interval = 1 * HZ; -/* This controls whether or not the driver will initialise devices - * with invalid MAC addresses stored in the EEPROM or flash. If true, - * such devices will be initialised with a random locally-generated - * MAC address. This allows for loading the sfc_mtd driver to - * reprogram the flash, even if the flash contents (including the MAC - * address) have previously been erased. - */ -static unsigned int allow_bad_hwaddr; - /* Initial interrupt moderation settings. They can be modified after * module load with ethtool. * @@ -916,7 +907,6 @@ static void efx_mac_work(struct work_struct *data) static int efx_probe_port(struct efx_nic *efx) { - unsigned char *perm_addr; int rc; netif_dbg(efx, probe, efx->net_dev, "create port\n"); @@ -929,28 +919,10 @@ static int efx_probe_port(struct efx_nic *efx) if (rc) return rc; - /* Sanity check MAC address */ - perm_addr = efx->net_dev->perm_addr; - if (is_valid_ether_addr(perm_addr)) { - memcpy(efx->net_dev->dev_addr, perm_addr, ETH_ALEN); - } else { - netif_err(efx, probe, efx->net_dev, "invalid MAC address %pM\n", - perm_addr); - if (!allow_bad_hwaddr) { - rc = -EINVAL; - goto err; - } - random_ether_addr(efx->net_dev->dev_addr); - netif_info(efx, probe, efx->net_dev, - "using locally-generated MAC %pM\n", - efx->net_dev->dev_addr); - } + /* Initialise MAC address to permanent address */ + memcpy(efx->net_dev->dev_addr, efx->net_dev->perm_addr, ETH_ALEN); return 0; - - err: - efx->type->remove_port(efx); - return rc; } static int efx_init_port(struct efx_nic *efx) |