netdev - [PATCH net-next v4 0/3] netconsole: allow selection of egress interface via MAC address

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Message-Id: <20250217-netconsole-v4-0-0c681cef71f1@purestorage.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:18:43 -0700
From: Uday Shankar <ushankar@...estorage.com>
To: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, 
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, 
 Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>, 
 Rafał Miłecki <rafal@...ecki.pl>, 
 Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, 
 Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, 
 Uday Shankar <ushankar@...estorage.com>, kuniyu@...zon.com, 
 Michal Swiatkowski <michal.swiatkowski@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v4 0/3] netconsole: allow selection of egress
 interface via MAC address

This series adds support for selecting a netconsole egress interface by
specifying the MAC address (in place of the interface name) in the
boot/module parameter.

Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@...estorage.com>
---
Changes in v4:
- Incorporate Breno Leitao's patch to add (non-RCU) dev_getbyhwaddr and
  use it (Jakub Kicinski)
- Use MAC_ADDR_STR_LEN in ieee80211_sta_debugfs_add as well (Michal
  Swiatkowski)
- Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250205-netconsole-v3-0-132a31f17199@purestorage.com

Changes in v3:
- Rename MAC_ADDR_LEN to MAC_ADDR_STR_LEN (Johannes Berg)
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250204-netconsole-v2-0-5ef5eb5f6056@purestorage.com

---
Breno Leitao (1):
      net: Add non-RCU dev_getbyhwaddr() helper

Uday Shankar (2):
      net, treewide: define and use MAC_ADDR_STR_LEN
      netconsole: allow selection of egress interface via MAC address

 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst |  6 +++-
 drivers/net/netconsole.c                |  2 +-
 drivers/nvmem/brcm_nvram.c              |  2 +-
 drivers/nvmem/layouts/u-boot-env.c      |  2 +-
 include/linux/if_ether.h                |  3 ++
 include/linux/netdevice.h               |  2 ++
 include/linux/netpoll.h                 |  6 ++++
 lib/net_utils.c                         |  4 +--
 net/core/dev.c                          | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
 net/core/netpoll.c                      | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c              |  7 +++--
 11 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 0784d83df3bfc977c13252a0599be924f0afa68d
change-id: 20250204-netconsole-4c610e2f871c

Best regards,
-- 
Uday Shankar <ushankar@...estorage.com>