Re: drivers/net/sunhme.c patch

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:11:18 +0100 (CET)

> 
> On Oct 29 2007 08:54, Tom Southerland wrote:
> >
> > This patch provides a unique mac address for all interfaces
> > for the Sun QFE card (non-sparc).  It takes the base mac from
> > the first interface and increments the mac address for the
> > other interfaces.
> 
> Where is the difference to a SPARC QFE? PCI is PCI after all, is not it?

This is exactly why I wish this patch had been posted to
netdev@vger.kernel.org, now we have a dialogue going and even if I add
netdev to the CC: now, you can't follow it completely as a netdev
subscriber without going to the lkml archives.

To answer the question, yes it is just a normal PCI device, they put 4
HME chips behind a PCI bridge.  However, the OpenFirmware on the cards
usually creates device node properties for these PCI devices for the
local ethernet addresses.  That's what he's trying to duplicate here.