From: <Charles.Hyde@dellteam.com>
To: <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com>,
<oliver@neukum.org>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
<nic_swsd@realtek.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4] Add usb_get_address and usb_set_address support
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 23:45:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1566431155587.57889@Dellteam.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190821012258.GB4285@lunn.ch>
>> The core USB driver message.c is missing get/set address functionality
>> that stops ifconfig from being able to push MAC addresses out to USB
>> based ethernet devices. Without this functionality, some USB devices
>> stop responding to ethernet packets when using ifconfig to change MAC
>> addresses.
>
> Hi Charles
>
> ifconfig has been deprecated for years, maybe a decade. Please
> reference the current tools, iproute2.
>
> Andrew
Thank you. I would, but that is not available on the system under test, while ifconfig is.
Charles Hyde
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-21 23:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-20 22:18 [RFC 1/4] Add usb_get_address and usb_set_address support Charles.Hyde
2019-08-20 22:26 ` Greg KH
2019-08-21 23:35 ` Charles.Hyde
2019-08-22 8:08 ` Oliver Neukum
2019-08-22 17:14 ` Charles.Hyde
2019-08-20 22:28 ` Greg KH
2019-08-21 1:22 ` Andrew Lunn
2019-08-21 23:45 ` Charles.Hyde [this message]
2019-08-21 9:08 ` Oliver Neukum
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