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

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Date:   Wed, 21 Aug 2019 23:45:55 +0000
From:   <Charles.Hyde@...lteam.com>
To:     <andrew@...n.ch>
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

>> 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


Thank you.  I would, but that is not available on the system under test, while ifconfig is.

Charles Hyde