From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Detlev Zundel Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 16:42:22 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] net: extend the netdev to have a common way to set the hw mac address In-Reply-To: <200905131407.19789.vapier@gentoo.org> (Mike Frysinger's message of "Wed, 13 May 2009 14:07:16 -0400") References: <1242023969-13542-1-git-send-email-plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> <200905121806.16642.vapier@gentoo.org> <200905131407.19789.vapier@gentoo.org> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.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 -- We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. --- Oscar Wilde -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-40 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: dzu at denx.de