From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: [PATCH 4 0/4] Add ability to set defaultless network device MAC addresses to deterministic computed locally administered values Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 09:08:49 -0400 Message-ID: <1341925729.14828.17.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> References: <20120705024259.26317.16000.stgit@build.warmcat.com> <201207101437.54877.florian@openwrt.org> <4FFC2712.9020208@warmcat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Florian Fainelli , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, s-jan@ti.com, arnd@arndb.de, patches@linaro.org, tony@atomide.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: "\"Andy Green" =?UTF-8?Q?=28=E6=9E=97=E5=AE=89=E5=BB=B8=29=22?= Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4FFC2712.9020208@warmcat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 20:58 +0800, "Andy Green (=E6=9E=97=E5=AE=89=E5=BB= =B8)" wrote: > On 10/07/12 20:37, the mail apparently from Florian Fainelli included= : >=20 > Why should Ubuntu, Fedora etc stink up their OSes with Panda-specific= =20 > workarounds? And Panda is not the only device with this issue. Actually I think you just answered your own question ;-) Anyway, I don't think an initrd solution is the best. Yeah, it's fine for a work around, but then I need to go and screw with the initrd if i= t doesn't have support for the board. If the network card already has a MAC address, why should the kernel give it another *random* one? This isn't a complex patch set, where the complexity should be put into userspace. And it makes it very convenient for people that just want th= e board to boot so they can test it. I'm not developing any SoC or BSP, I'm just using it to make sure my kernel changes can also be implemente= d for ARM. -- Steve