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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 13:47:06 -0500
From: Brian Masney <bmasney@...hat.com>
To: Tianhao Chai <cth451@...il.com>
Cc: irusskikh@...vell.com, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: atlantic: fix check for invalid ethernet addresses
On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 01:26:40PM -0500, Tianhao Chai wrote:
> I'm not familar with this particular board, but this probably shouldn't
> be done in kernel. AFAIK uboot allows overriding MAC with env 'ethaddr'.
> uboot then either writes this MAC into DT or calls NIC specific code to
> set the MAC into NIC memory before booting the kernel.
Our Boot Loader is ABL on the Qualcomm platform.
> The other way around I can think of is to use systemd-networkd or some
> other network management daemon to override the mac address as it tries
> to establish a network connection. This might be less hassle if you
> don't want to mess with the boot loader, but for embedded devices you'd
> need a different root fs image for every board.
We'll look into the systemd approach. I see that our board serial number
is available in /sys/devices/soc0/serial_number and we can have a script
generate a MAC address based on that.
> Acked-by: Tianhao Chai <cth451@...il.com>
Thanks!
Brian
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