netdev - Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver

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Message-ID: <20090311191530.GA18211@kos.to>
Date:	Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:15:30 +0200
From:	Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@....fi>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 06:23:36AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> That's what NVRAM, CMOS, EEPROM's and other writable long-term
> storage areas are for.

> To be quite honest with you, any ethernet device that doesn't
> have an EEPROM where the chip instance's ethernet address is
> stored is completely broken.

If that is the case, pretty much every SOHO NAS device (running
linux + samba) being sold in your nearest IT shop is completly
broken.

In such machines, typically the mac address is stored in bootloader's
configuration area in NOR/NAND flash.

-- 
"rm -rf" only sounds scary if you don't have backups

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