Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:37:53 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <20110214.133753.102561672.davem@davemloft.net>
To: toshiharu-linux@dsn.okisemi.com
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        andrew.chih.howe.khor@intel.com, joel.clark@intel.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] pch_gbe: Fix the MAC Address load issue.
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Toshiharu Okada <toshiharu-linux@dsn.okisemi.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:51:54 +0900

> With the specification of hardware,
> the processing at the time of driver starting was modified.
> 
> This device write automatically the MAC address read from serial ROM
> into a MAC Adress1A/1B register at the time of power on reset.
> However, when stable clock is not supplied,
> the writing of MAC Adress1A/1B register may not be completed.
> In this case, it is necessary to load MAC address to MAC Address1A/1B register
> by the MAC Address1 load register.
> 
> This patch always does the above processing,
> in order not to be dependent on system environment.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Toshiharu Okada <toshiharu-linux@dsn.okisemi.com>

Applied.
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