netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] r8152: Add support for setting MAC to system's Auxiliary MAC address

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Date:	Thu, 2 Jun 2016 21:09:46 +0200
From:	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:	Mario_Limonciello@...l.com
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, hayeswang@...ltek.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, pali.rohar@...il.com,
	anthony.wong@...onical.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] r8152: Add support for setting MAC to system's
 Auxiliary MAC address

On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 07:04:32PM +0000, Mario_Limonciello@...l.com wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew Lunn [mailto:andrew@...n.ch]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 2, 2016 2:03 PM
> > To: Limonciello, Mario <Mario_Limonciello@...l.com>
> > Cc: gregkh@...uxfoundation.org; hayeswang@...ltek.com; linux-
> > kernel@...r.kernel.org; netdev@...r.kernel.org; linux-
> > usb@...r.kernel.org; pali.rohar@...il.com; anthony.wong@...onical.com
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] r8152: Add support for setting MAC to system's
> > Auxiliary MAC address
> > 
> > > > And you want to check this for all Dell devices?  Please be model
> > > > specific, I doubt a bunch of Dell servers wants to run this code...
> > > >
> > >
> > > Tracking model specific is really going to turn into a giant list never ending
> > list.
> > > To drill down more specifically, I can match on chassis too.
> > 
> > Does Dell happen to use its own USB Vendor ID for the USB device in
> > the dock? You could go at this problem from the other direction if it
> > does have a unique vendor ID.
> > 
> >      Andrew
> 
> Unfortunately it's not a Dell specific VID/PID.  I'm asking around to find out
> if there is something else identifiable about this dock's NIC (maybe that r8152 
> can query).

lsusb -v

I assume there is a USB hub in the dock, maybe that has a Dell VID?
Going one level up the USB tree hierarchy should not be too hard.

      Andrew