From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?IkFuZHkgR3JlZW4gKOael+WuieW7uCki?= 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 Message-ID: <4FFC2712.9020208@warmcat.com> References: <20120705024259.26317.16000.stgit@build.warmcat.com> <201207101437.54877.florian@openwrt.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE 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 To: Florian Fainelli Return-path: In-Reply-To: <201207101437.54877.florian@openwrt.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.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 =C3=A9crit : >> The following series adds some code to generate legal, locally admin= istered >> MAC addresses from OMAP4 CPU Die ID fuse data, and then adds a helpe= r at >> net/ethernet taking care of accepting device path / MAC mapping >> registrations and running a notifier to enforce the requested MAC wh= en the >> matching network device turns up. > > This looks like something you can solve by user-space entirely. Expos= e the That might seem so from a openwrt perspective, where you custom cook th= e=20 whole userland thing per-device, but it ain't so from a generic rootfs=20 perspective. Why should Ubuntu, Fedora etc stink up their OSes with Panda-specific=20 workarounds? And Panda is not the only device with this issue. -Andy