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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, ralf@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: octeon-ethernet: Assign proper MAC addresses.
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:04:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091012190407.GA24524@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1255374272-32757-1-git-send-email-ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:04:32PM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> Allocate MAC addresses using the same method as the bootloader.  This
> avoids changing the MAC between bootloader and kernel operation as
> well as avoiding duplicates and use of addresses outside of the
> assigned range.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
> ---
> 
> This could merge via Ralf's tree as Octeon is MIPS based and all the
> rest of the Octeon patches seem to be going in this way.

Fine with me.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-12 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-12 19:04 [PATCH] Staging: octeon-ethernet: Assign proper MAC addresses David Daney
2009-10-12 19:04 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-10-12 22:52   ` Ralf Baechle

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