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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: intel-wired-lan@osuosl.org
Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v3] net: e1000e: add MAC address kernel cmd line parameter
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:32:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190228153245.GA17912@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1551361951-1595-1-git-send-email-f.suligoi@asem.it>

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 02:52:31PM +0100, Flavio Suligoi wrote:
> Sometimes, in some embedded systems boards (i.e. ARM boards),
> the NVM eeprom is not mounted, to save cost and space.
> 
> In this case it is necessary to bypass the NVM management
> and directly force the MAC address using a kernel command-line
> parameter (macaddr).

Hi Flavio

Why not use device tree, since this is an ARM platform?

    Andrew

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Flavio Suligoi <f.suligoi@asem.it>
Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] net: e1000e: add MAC address kernel cmd line parameter
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:32:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190228153245.GA17912@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1551361951-1595-1-git-send-email-f.suligoi@asem.it>

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 02:52:31PM +0100, Flavio Suligoi wrote:
> Sometimes, in some embedded systems boards (i.e. ARM boards),
> the NVM eeprom is not mounted, to save cost and space.
> 
> In this case it is necessary to bypass the NVM management
> and directly force the MAC address using a kernel command-line
> parameter (macaddr).

Hi Flavio

Why not use device tree, since this is an ARM platform?

    Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-28 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-28  9:20 [PATCH] net: e1000e: add MAC address kernel cmd line parameter Flavio Suligoi
2019-02-28 13:38 ` [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v2] " Flavio Suligoi
2019-02-28 13:38   ` Flavio Suligoi
2019-02-28 13:52   ` [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v3] " Flavio Suligoi
2019-02-28 13:52     ` Flavio Suligoi
2019-02-28 15:32     ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2019-02-28 15:32       ` Andrew Lunn
2019-02-28 15:51       ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Flavio Suligoi
2019-02-28 15:51         ` Flavio Suligoi
2019-02-28 16:37         ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Andrew Lunn
2019-02-28 16:37           ` Andrew Lunn
2019-02-28 17:13           ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Flavio Suligoi
2019-02-28 17:13             ` Flavio Suligoi
2019-02-28 19:29             ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Andrew Lunn
2019-02-28 19:29               ` Andrew Lunn
2019-02-28 19:47               ` [Intel-wired-lan] " David Miller
2019-02-28 19:47                 ` David Miller
2019-03-01  8:15                 ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Flavio Suligoi
2019-03-01  8:15                   ` Flavio Suligoi
2019-02-28 18:21 ` [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] " David Miller
2019-02-28 18:21   ` David Miller

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