From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Michael Trimarchi <trimarchi@gandalf.sssup.it>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dm9000: add set_mac_address()
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:08:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46BF9304.9080709@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070812192741.GB27490@gandalf.sssup.it>
set_mac_address should not write to the SROM, as Michael noted.
The proper operations are:
probe time:
read MAC address from SROM
dev open (interface up):
write dev->dev_addr[] to RX filter (or identity) registers
EEPROM update support is available separately, via an ethtool sub-ioctl.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-12 23:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-12 19:27 dm9000: add set_mac_address() Michael Trimarchi
2007-08-12 21:38 ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-12 21:20 ` dm9000: add set_mac_address() v2 michael trimarchi
2007-08-12 22:26 ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-12 22:45 ` Michael Trimarchi
2007-08-12 22:58 ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-12 21:45 ` dm9000: add set_mac_address() Michael Buesch
2007-08-12 20:54 ` michael trimarchi
2007-08-12 23:08 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-08-13 7:24 ` Michael Trimarchi
2007-08-14 10:10 ` Ben Dooks
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