Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 10 Jul 2012 20:58:58 +0800 | | From | "Andy Green (林安廸)" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4 0/4] Add ability to set defaultless network device MAC addresses to deterministic computed locally administered values |
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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.
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