Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:22:58 +0100 | From | Alessandro Zummo <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/2] Driver to remember ethernet MAC values: maclist |
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On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:02:03 +0000 Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > for this driver which we are working on.. for example, > > some Cirrus Logic ARM based chips (ep93xx) have an ethernet device > > that could benefit from that. > > An alternative solution (suggested in the past) would be to have a > generic kernel command line option such as: mac=<netdev>,<macaddr> > > It nicely solves the "no mac address" issue in a lot (if not all) > of the cases.
That would help, but it can't easily be implemented when you are targeting consumer devices like nas, routers et al which already have been widely deployed.
I know that the solution would be to fix the bootloader, but Joe Average is a little bit scared of reflashing it.
A maclist-alike system could help to solve that situation.
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Best regards,
Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Turin, Italy
http://www.towertech.it
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