From: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Vrabel <dvrabel@cantab.net>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
John Bowler <jbowler@acm.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/2] Driver to remember ethernet MAC values: maclist
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:22:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060220142258.7299170c@inspiron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060220130203.GA22147@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:02:03 +0000
Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > for this driver which we are working on.. for example,
> > some Cirrus Logic ARM based chips (ep93xx) have an ethernet device
> > that could benefit from that.
>
> An alternative solution (suggested in the past) would be to have a
> generic kernel command line option such as: mac=<netdev>,<macaddr>
>
> It nicely solves the "no mac address" issue in a lot (if not all)
> of the cases.
That would help, but it can't easily be implemented when you are
targeting consumer devices like nas, routers et al which already
have been widely deployed.
I know that the solution would be to fix the bootloader, but
Joe Average is a little bit scared of reflashing it.
A maclist-alike system could help to solve that situation.
--
Best regards,
Alessandro Zummo,
Tower Technologies - Turin, Italy
http://www.towertech.it
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-20 13:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-20 1:01 [RFC] [PATCH 1/2] Driver to remember ethernet MAC values: maclist Martin Michlmayr
2006-02-20 1:47 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-20 2:01 ` Alessandro Zummo
2006-02-20 2:39 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-20 16:23 ` John Bowler
2006-02-20 12:16 ` David Vrabel
2006-02-20 12:57 ` Alessandro Zummo
2006-02-20 13:02 ` Russell King
2006-02-20 13:22 ` Alessandro Zummo [this message]
2006-02-20 17:04 ` John Bowler
2006-02-20 13:07 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2006-02-20 13:15 ` jamal
2006-02-20 13:28 ` Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-03 16:17 ` Atsushi Nemoto
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