On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:02:03 +0000 Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > for this driver which we are working on.. for example, > > some Cirrus Logic ARM based chips (ep93xx) have an ethernet device > > that could benefit from that. > > An alternative solution (suggested in the past) would be to have a > generic kernel command line option such as: mac=<netdev>,<macaddr> > > It nicely solves the "no mac address" issue in a lot (if not all) > of the cases. That would help, but it can't easily be implemented when you are targeting consumer devices like nas, routers et al which already have been widely deployed. I know that the solution would be to fix the bootloader, but Joe Average is a little bit scared of reflashing it. A maclist-alike system could help to solve that situation. -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Turin, Italy http://www.towertech.it - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
