Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:10:25 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: drivers/net/sunhme.c patch | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:11:18 +0100 (CET)
> > On Oct 29 2007 08:54, Tom Southerland wrote: > > > > This patch provides a unique mac address for all interfaces > > for the Sun QFE card (non-sparc). It takes the base mac from > > the first interface and increments the mac address for the > > other interfaces. > > Where is the difference to a SPARC QFE? PCI is PCI after all, is not it?
This is exactly why I wish this patch had been posted to netdev@vger.kernel.org, now we have a dialogue going and even if I add netdev to the CC: now, you can't follow it completely as a netdev subscriber without going to the lkml archives.
To answer the question, yes it is just a normal PCI device, they put 4 HME chips behind a PCI bridge. However, the OpenFirmware on the cards usually creates device node properties for these PCI devices for the local ethernet addresses. That's what he's trying to duplicate here. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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