[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] net: extend the netdev to have a common way to set the hw mac address

[Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>]

Hi Mike,

> On Wednesday 13 May 2009 04:41:29 Detlev Zundel wrote:
>> >> I never ran across this outside of linux arm where people seriously
>> >> repeat the statement over and over that a whole initramfs with an
>> >> initial userspace and a pivot_root is plausible for nfs root whilst
>> >> patches of a few lines float around doing the same in the kernel.
>> >
>> > i never said that a completely populated initramfs was needed.  it can be
>> > accomplished pretty easily with very little code.
>>
>> Sure, but still, how big is such an initramfs, do you have any numbers
>> here?
>>
>> And how many lines of C code does it take to set the MAC in the kernel?
>> Is this really worth it?
>
> that is the problem of whoever needs this functionality.

Ah.  Now this is exactly what reminded me of the ARM Linux ML in the
first place :(

Seeing that I do not learn anything new here, I'll stop.

Cheers
  Detlev

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