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

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Message-Id: <20090312.080114.198232805.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:01:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	christer@...nigel.se
Cc:	shemminger@...tta.com, s.hauer@...gutronix.de, 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

From: Christer Weinigel <christer@...nigel.se>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:21:47 +0100

> Yes, that why I'd want that in a generic piece of code instead of
> having to hack it into each device driver.  Would a generic command
> line option, something like "ethaddrs=eth0=00:de:ad:be:ef:01" which
> assigns addresses to network cards be acceptable?

Yep, and you can parse that and execute the appropriate
ifconfig command from userspace in your initial ramdisk.
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