[PATCH] skge: dont allow bad hardware address from ROM
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>
diff --git a/drivers/net/skge.c b/drivers/net/skge.c
index f377c25..5044f45 100644
--- a/drivers/net/skge.c
+++ b/drivers/net/skge.c
@@ -3362,6 +3362,14 @@
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",