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
next prev parent 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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