linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] smsc95xx: allow to re-use MAC address already programmed

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Message-Id: <20120208.152647.2150915591550944292.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:26:47 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	pmeerw@...erw.net
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, steve.glendinning@...c.com,
	p.meerwald@...-electronic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] smsc95xx: allow to re-use MAC address already
 programmed

From: Peter Meerwald <pmeerw@...erw.net>
Date: Wed,  8 Feb 2012 12:08:52 +0100

> From: Peter Meerwald <p.meerwald@...-electronic.com>
> 
> patch adds a module parameter which allows to keep the MAC address already 
> set (e.g. by the boot loader) if it is valid (otherwise the MAC address is read 
> from an optional EEPROM or randomly generated)
> 
> tested on beagleboard-xm
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Meerwald <p.meerwald@...-electronic.com>

No way, for the same reason as your other patch.

Module parameters suck, use something generic.
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