Originally Helmut posted a v2 of the "ath9k: Allow platform override
without EEPROM override", but I had prematurely commited the original
as commit 
552a515707a.  This commit restores the tree to what Helmut
intended with his v2 submission. -- JWL
Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
 
        struct ath_softc *sc = (struct ath_softc *) common->priv;
        struct ath9k_platform_data *pdata = sc->dev->platform_data;
 
-       if (pdata) {
+       if (pdata && !pdata->use_eeprom) {
                if (off >= (ARRAY_SIZE(pdata->eeprom_data))) {
                        ath_err(common,
                                "%s: eeprom read failed, offset %08x is out of range\n",