s related to reinitializing the PHY when the MAC address is changed (which bonding is wont to do). This patch changes sky2_set_mac_address to take less drastic measures. This is analagous to the skge patch here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/9/29/399 which fixed the issue here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5271 Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik