Need testers for patch to get MAC address of integrated dc(4)
cards
Maxime Henrion
mux at freebsd.org
Thu Jan 8 09:03:35 PST 2004
Marius Strobl wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:41:16AM +0100, Maxime Henrion wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> >
> > I've tweaked Marius' patch to properly get the MAC address of the
> > integrated Davicom cards found in some sparc64 boxes from OpenFirmware
> > without breaking the build of the dc(4) module. I'd like to get this
> > tested as soon as possible because this patch should go into 5.2-RELEASE
> > and we don't have much time left. Since I don't have the necessary
> > hardware to test it myself, I need your help guys :-).
> >
> > For what it's worth, putting the code into an OF_getetheraddr2()
> > function is a bit crude, but since Marius experienced difficulties
> > merging it into OF_getetheraddr(), I chose to stay on the safe side.
> > This can be revisited later.
> >
>
> Please use the attached version instead, it has two changes over Maxime's
> version:
> - Fix compilation by adding a prototype for OF_getetheraddr2().
Hmm, yes, I had this in my tree of course but forgot to include it in
the patch.
> - Add a debugging printf for an issue I had with my version of
> OF_getetheraddr() to really make sure it works as expected.
I guess that could be useful.
Cheers,
Maxime
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