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[PATCH] skge: dont allow bad hardware address from ROM

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Sometimes boards don't reset properly, and the address read out of the
EEPROM is zero. Stop the insanity before the device gets registered.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Stephen Hemminger 2006-06-06 10:11:14 -07:00 committed by Jeff Garzik
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commit 631ae320a4
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@ -3362,6 +3362,14 @@ static int __devinit skge_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
if ((dev = skge_devinit(hw, 0, using_dac)) == NULL)
goto err_out_led_off;
if (!is_valid_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr)) {
printk(KERN_ERR PFX "%s: bad (zero?) ethernet address in rom\n",
pci_name(pdev));
err = -EIO;
goto err_out_free_netdev;
}
err = register_netdev(dev);
if (err) {
printk(KERN_ERR PFX "%s: cannot register net device\n",