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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] kernel parameters: introduce "macaddr" to set mac
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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:20:37 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Paolo Pisati <p.pisati@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:15:27 +0200

> In the past drivers grew mechanism to set their own mac address at boot time
> via (usually) a module parameter. Unfortunately every single driver had its
> own naming/implementation and it soon became clear that a generic
> mechanism was needed.
> 
> Introduce "macaddr=", a new kernel parameter to set MAC address using
> netdevice ops (and hence being hardware independent).

Sorry, no, no module parameters.

Run time setting is the only reasonable way to set the MAC address
explicitly.