[U-Boot] [PATCH RFC] sandbox: Add tap based networking

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Saturday 03 December 2011 10:06:58 Matthias Weisser wrote:
> Am 29.11.2011 19:39, schrieb Mike Frysinger:
> > then when tap_set_hwaddr() gets called, if the MAC is different, it will
> > attempt to set the MAC to what the user requested.  if they don't have
> > permission, then the code can yell at them.  but if they do, this should
> > work imo.  this gets us the best of all worlds i think.
> 
> I looked into that. It seems that you have to shut down the interface,
> change the MAC and up the interface again. I tried now to do this using
> some ioctls but didn't got it working as user or as root. So I give up
> at this point. Should I submit the V2 patch without setting MAC function
> anyway or will it not be applied then?

add a comment to the set_hwaddr that you tried XXX but couldn't get it to 
work, so for now it's disabled until someone can post a working solution
-mike
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