From: "\"Andy Green (林安廸)\"" <andy@warmcat.com>
To: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Cc: 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, rostedt@goodmis.org
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 20:58:58 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FFC2712.9020208@warmcat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201207101437.54877.florian@openwrt.org>
On 10/07/12 20:37, the mail apparently from Florian Fainelli included:
Hi -
> Le jeudi 05 juillet 2012 04:44:33, Andy Green a écrit :
>> The following series adds some code to generate legal, locally administered
>> MAC addresses from OMAP4 CPU Die ID fuse data, and then adds a helper at
>> net/ethernet taking care of accepting device path / MAC mapping
>> registrations and running a notifier to enforce the requested MAC when the
>> matching network device turns up.
>
> This looks like something you can solve by user-space entirely. Expose the
That might seem so from a openwrt perspective, where you custom cook the
whole userland thing per-device, but it ain't so from a generic rootfs
perspective.
Why should Ubuntu, Fedora etc stink up their OSes with Panda-specific
workarounds? And Panda is not the only device with this issue.
-Andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-10 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-05 2:44 [PATCH 4 0/4] Add ability to set defaultless network device MAC addresses to deterministic computed locally administered values Andy Green
2012-07-05 2:44 ` [PATCH 4 1/4] OMAP: add cpu id register to MAC address helper Andy Green
2012-07-05 2:44 ` [PATCH 4 2/4] NET ethernet introduce mac_platform helper Andy Green
2012-07-05 3:12 ` Joe Perches
2012-07-05 3:20 ` Andy Green
2012-07-05 3:25 ` Joe Perches
2012-07-06 22:40 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-05 2:44 ` [PATCH 4 3/4] OMAP4 PANDA register ethernet and wlan for automatic mac allocation Andy Green
2012-07-05 2:45 ` [PATCH 4 4/4] config test config extending omap2plus with wl12xx etc Andy Green
2012-07-10 12:37 ` [PATCH 4 0/4] Add ability to set defaultless network device MAC addresses to deterministic computed locally administered values Florian Fainelli
2012-07-10 12:58 ` "Andy Green (林安廸)" [this message]
2012-07-10 13:08 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-07-10 15:20 ` Alan Cox
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