From: Ben Dooks <ben@fluff.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Michael Trimarchi <trimarchi@gandalf.sssup.it>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dm9000: add set_mac_address()
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:10:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070814101010.GA29632@fluff.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46BF9304.9080709@pobox.com>
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 07:08:52PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> set_mac_address should not write to the SROM, as Michael noted.
>
> The proper operations are:
>
> probe time:
> read MAC address from SROM
>
> dev open (interface up):
> write dev->dev_addr[] to RX filter (or identity) registers
>
> EEPROM update support is available separately, via an ethtool sub-ioctl.
This sounds sensible, I am working on adding ethtool support
and should have a patch available in the next day or so.
--
Ben (ben@fluff.org, http://www.fluff.org/)
'a smiley only costs 4 bytes'
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-14 10:10 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
2007-08-12 23:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-08-13 7:24 ` Michael Trimarchi
2007-08-14 10:10 ` Ben Dooks [this message]
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