netdev - Re: PATCH: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy

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Date:	Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:53:14 -0400
From:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>,
	Bill Nottingham <notting@...hat.com>,
	Scott James Remnant <scott@...ntu.com>,
	Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@...l.com>,
	Narendra K <narendra_k@...l.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-hotplug@...r.kernel.org, jordan_hargrave@...l.com
Subject: Re: PATCH: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 07:53:04PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 11:06 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:

> > And if we really want seamless support for MAC spoofing, we want
> > ETHTOOL_GPERMADDR for all drivers too, so that if your configuration
> > says "rename device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX to YY:YY:YY:YY:YY:YY" we can
> > actually figure stuff out after the spoof.
> 
> ETHTOOL_GPERMADDR is handled in the ethtool core now.  Are you thinking
> of drivers that don't have ethtool ops?  Maybe it's time to add default
> operations.

Not quite true -- dev->perm_addr still has to be set by the driver.

John
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