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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
To: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>,
	David Vrabel <dvrabel@cantab.net>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
	Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	John Bowler <jbowler@acm.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/2] Driver to remember ethernet MAC values: maclist
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:15:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1140441307.6083.108.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060220130712.GA24784@xi.wantstofly.org>

On Mon, 2006-20-02 at 14:07 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 01:57:18PM +0100, Alessandro Zummo wrote:
> 

> Or just pass the MAC along in platform device style.  What I did in
> drivers/net/ixp2000/ was to have enp2611.c (board-specific code) read
> the MAC from the board, and pass it to ixpdev.c (generic code) in the
> net_device structure.
> 

yep, this is what i have seen done in a lot of embedded boards
containing switching chips (If i am not mistaken there is a 4 port
switch in the IXP4xx)

cheers,
jamal

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-20 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-20  1:01 [RFC] [PATCH 1/2] Driver to remember ethernet MAC values: maclist Martin Michlmayr
2006-02-20  1:47 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-20  2:01   ` Alessandro Zummo
2006-02-20  2:39     ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-20 16:23       ` John Bowler
2006-02-20 12:16     ` David Vrabel
2006-02-20 12:57       ` Alessandro Zummo
2006-02-20 13:02         ` Russell King
2006-02-20 13:22           ` Alessandro Zummo
2006-02-20 17:04             ` John Bowler
2006-02-20 13:07         ` Lennert Buytenhek
2006-02-20 13:15           ` jamal [this message]
2006-02-20 13:28           ` Alessandro Zummo
2006-03-03 16:17 ` Atsushi Nemoto

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