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

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Message-ID: <20090311213316.GF18096@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:33:16 +0000
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Christer Weinigel <christer@...nigel.se>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, s.hauer@...gutronix.de,
	shemminger@...tta.com, yanok@...raft.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	wd@...x.de, dzu@...x.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 09:56:06PM +0100, Christer Weinigel wrote:
> Actually, I wish we had a generic way of doing that, so that could set 
> the mac address of any ethernet interface from the kernel command in a 
> nice and supported way.

You're not the first to suggest that; that's precisely what I've
suggested in the past (though I probably couldn't find the postings if
I tried now.)  I've seen it all, from people trying to invent ATAGs to
pass ethernet addresses to the kernel, driver specific command lines,
and hard coded ethernet addresses in drivers.

I'm sure David would give full and proper consideration to a clean patch
adding such support in a generic way (even if the resulting answer is
still a 'no'.)
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