From: michael trimarchi <trimarchi@gandalf.sssup.it>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dm9000: add set_mac_address()
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:54:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070812205434.GC27490@gandalf.sssup.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200708122345.30386.mb@bu3sch.de>
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 11:45:30PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Sunday 12 August 2007 23:38:08 Michael Buesch wrote:
> > On Sunday 12 August 2007 21:27:41 Michael Trimarchi wrote:
> > > Implement set_mac_address() for the dm9000 driver. This allows changing
> > > the mac address of the interface.
[...]
> >
> > That is broken on BigEndian architectures.
ok. I'll check it.
> >
>
> And is it really desired to change the mac in the ROM here?
> I'd say this should only write the mac to the device registers
> (filters and so on).
Many drivers do that in this way. You can change the MAC address for example
after flashing an arm board using ifconfig eth0 hw <mac address>.
>
> --
> Greetings Michael.
Cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-12 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-12 19:27 dm9000: add set_mac_address() Michael Trimarchi
2007-08-12 21:38 ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-12 21:20 ` dm9000: add set_mac_address() v2 michael trimarchi
2007-08-12 22:26 ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-12 22:45 ` Michael Trimarchi
2007-08-12 22:58 ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-12 21:45 ` dm9000: add set_mac_address() Michael Buesch
2007-08-12 20:54 ` michael trimarchi [this message]
2007-08-12 23:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-08-13 7:24 ` Michael Trimarchi
2007-08-14 10:10 ` Ben Dooks
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