netdev - Re: [RFC 1/4] Add usb_get_address and usb_set

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Message-ID: <20190821012258.GB4285@lunn.ch>
Date:   Wed, 21 Aug 2019 03:22:58 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Charles.Hyde@...lteam.com
Cc:     linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, Mario.Limonciello@...l.com,
        oliver@...kum.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, nic_swsd@...ltek.com
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4] Add usb_get_address and usb_set_address support

On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 10:18:42PM +0000, Charles.Hyde@...lteam.com wrote:
> The core USB driver message.c is missing get/set address functionality
> that stops ifconfig from being able to push MAC addresses out to USB
> based ethernet devices.  Without this functionality, some USB devices
> stop responding to ethernet packets when using ifconfig to change MAC
> addresses.

Hi Charles

ifconfig has been deprecated for years, maybe a decade. Please
reference the current tools, iproute2.

	  Andrew