From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell King Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/2] Driver to remember ethernet MAC values: maclist Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:02:03 +0000 Message-ID: <20060220130203.GA22147@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <20060220010113.GA19309@deprecation.cyrius.com> <20060220014735.GD4971@stusta.de> <20060220030146.11f418dc@inspiron> <43F9B32B.3090203@cantab.net> <20060220135718.038b675b@inspiron> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: David Vrabel , Adrian Bunk , Martin Michlmayr , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, John Bowler Return-path: To: Alessandro Zummo Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060220135718.038b675b@inspiron> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 01:57:18PM +0100, Alessandro Zummo wrote: > you're certainly right on the ixp4xx, but the are other uses > for this driver which we are working on.. for example, > some Cirrus Logic ARM based chips (ep93xx) have an ethernet device > that could benefit from that. An alternative solution (suggested in the past) would be to have a generic kernel command line option such as: mac=, It nicely solves the "no mac address" issue in a lot (if not all) of the cases. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core