[Intel-wired-lan] Patch for igb_main.c

James Courtier-Dutton james.dutton at gmail.com
Mon Mar 26 19:00:13 UTC 2018


On Mon, 26 Mar 2018, 16:39 Duyck, Alexander H, <alexander.h.duyck at intel.com>
wrote:

>
> Any idea why the MAC address is invalid? Does the part not have an NVM,
> or is the NVM not populated correctly?
>
> I'm really not a fan of us enabling a random MAC address for the device
> if a valid one is not present. I would like to know more about why a
> valid one is not present and see if we can address that before we start
> working around it in the driver.
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Alex


Hi Alex,

The intention is that it only chooses a random mac addres if all other
options are not available.
It is better for the driver to load than not at all.

Kind regards

James
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