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Message-Id: <20071029.151025.87460351.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:10:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: jengelh@...putergmbh.de
Cc: toms@...derland.us.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: drivers/net/sunhme.c patch
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.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@...r.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.
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