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From: "Sudhakar Rajashekhara" <sudhakar.raj@ti.com>
To: "'David Brownell'" <david-b@pacbell.net>,
	"'Mike Frysinger'" <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH] m25p80: add support for a callback to platform code on
	successful device probe
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:37:24 +0530
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On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 18:37:47, David Brownell wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:47:05, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> 
> > it is necessary
> > > that you do these things from kernel space instead of
> > standard
> > > userspace.
> 
> Hard to get userspace to do this stuff if
> you're doing a network boot, and thus need
> to have the MAC address working early.. it's
> easy if the kernel can get the MAC address,
> else not possible to boot.  Right?
> 

You are absolutely right.

- Sudhakar