dm9601: handle corrupt mac address

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Some cheap devices ship with dangling EEPROM pins!
They always return invalid address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff.

Inherit the auto-generated address in this case,
so that these products can work with zero configuration.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Wu Fengguang 2009-01-06 10:55:10 -08:00 • committed by David S. Miller

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drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c

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