From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Adam Kropelin <akropel1@rochester.rr.com>,
Neil Cafferkey <caffer@cs.ucc.ie>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Setting MAC address in ewrk3 driver
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 19:02:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DDD7418.2010408@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021121195417.A18859@cuc.ucc.ie>
Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 23:39, Adam Kropelin wrote:
>
> >Alan, could you clarify for me? I'm the last guy to diddle with ewrk3 so
> >I'll track this down if there is indeed something to track down. ewrk3
> >has a private ioctl for setting the mac address. By the "up" method do
> >you mean the etherdev open method? Should there be a standard ioctl
> >implemented for setting the mac address?
>
>
> dev->set_mac_address()
To be more specific:
Read the MAC address in the probe phase.
Write MAC address to NIC on _each_ dev->open().
If you care about changing the MAC address while interface is up,
implement dev->set_mac_address().
So, dev->set_mac_address() is pretty useless, when you can just tell
users "down the interface before setting MAC address" which is a sane
thing to do anyway, and much less complicated.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-21 23:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-21 19:54 Setting MAC address in ewrk3 driver Neil Cafferkey
2002-11-21 21:28 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-21 23:39 ` Adam Kropelin
2002-11-22 0:26 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-21 23:29 ` Adam Kropelin
2002-11-22 0:02 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-11-22 1:30 ` [PATCH] " Adam Kropelin
2002-11-26 1:47 ` Neil Cafferkey
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