From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754845AbXJ2WKk (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:10:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753221AbXJ2WKY (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:10:24 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:49940 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753146AbXJ2WKX (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:10:23 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:10:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20071029.151025.87460351.davem@davemloft.net> To: jengelh@computergmbh.de Cc: toms@wonderland.us.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: drivers/net/sunhme.c patch From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <4725F416.2030100@wonderland.us.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jan Engelhardt 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.