From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:11:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:60902 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S1493333AbZJLTLw (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:11:52 +0200 Received: from relay2.suse.de (relay-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 055D379727; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:11:52 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:04:09 -0700 From: Greg KH To: David Daney Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, ralf@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: octeon-ethernet: Assign proper MAC addresses. Message-ID: <20091012190407.GA24524@suse.de> References: <1255374272-32757-1-git-send-email-ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1255374272-32757-1-git-send-email-ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 24240 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: gregkh@suse.de Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips 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 > --- > > 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