From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Richard_R=F6jfors?= Subject: Re: [PATCH] ks8842: Add module param for setting mac address Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:46:58 +0200 Message-ID: <4BCBFC62.8010200@pelagicore.com> References: <1271611557.24099.11.camel@debian> <20100418.211800.112605815.davem@davemloft.net> <4BCBF53D.1040800@pelagicore.com> <20100418.233631.115927208.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from smtprelay-b11.telenor.se ([62.127.194.20]:55255 "EHLO smtprelay-b11.telenor.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751877Ab0DSGrn (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Apr 2010 02:47:43 -0400 Received: from ipb3.telenor.se (ipb3.telenor.se [195.54.127.166]) by smtprelay-b11.telenor.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FCCDE3F4 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:47:01 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <20100418.233631.115927208.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 04/19/2010 08:36 AM, David Miller wrote: > From: Richard R=F6jfors > Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:16:29 +0200 > >> I posted a new patch where the MAC address is passed via >> platform data, hope that's an accepted way. > > I saw also that you mentioned that there is no real > way to probe this information. > > Therefore I worry that your plan might be to simply > use some kernel command line or module option somewhere > else to fill in this platform_device value. > > Is that what you plan to do? In the lab; yes. In the end, there will be a flash available to store system wide parameters. --Richard