From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Duncan Sands <duncan.sands@math.u-psud.fr>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
usbatm@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Eagle and ADI 930 usb adsl modem driver
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 07:45:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1130917501.10031.149.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511020843.01004.duncan.sands@math.u-psud.fr>
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 08:42 +0100, Duncan Sands wrote:
> we could do this for the speedtouch - in fact we used to do this: when
> someone tried to open a connection, we loaded the firmware if it
> hadn't been loaded yet. The problem is with other modems, like the
> connexant access runner, for which you can't get all the info needed
> to create an ATM device before the firmware is loaded (the MAC address
> for example).
Don't we also have Ethernet devices like that -- where the MAC address
doesn't get set until you bring the device up?
Can we get away with changing the MAC address later? Or is there other
stuff we need earlier?
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-02 7:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-29 22:37 matthieu castet
2005-10-31 23:58 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-01 12:40 ` Duncan Sands
2005-11-01 13:04 ` David Woodhouse
2005-11-01 13:12 ` Marco d'Itri
2005-11-02 7:42 ` Duncan Sands
2005-11-02 7:45 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2005-11-02 8:02 ` Duncan Sands
2005-11-02 10:46 ` Roman Kagan
2005-11-02 11:01 ` Duncan Sands
2005-11-01 13:49 ` matthieu castet
2005-11-02 5:29 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-02 22:27 ` Greg KH
2005-11-02 7:45 ` Duncan Sands
2005-11-01 14:08 ` matthieu castet
2005-11-02 5:34 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-02 7:47 ` Duncan Sands
2005-11-01 22:45 ` Greg KH
2005-11-02 7:54 ` Duncan Sands
2005-11-02 8:03 ` Greg KH
2005-11-02 8:45 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Oliver Neukum
2005-11-02 8:52 ` Duncan Sands
2005-11-02 21:39 ` Greg KH
2005-11-02 21:37 ` Greg KH
2005-11-02 15:56 ` Alan Stern
2005-11-02 20:15 ` matthieu castet
2005-11-02 21:18 ` matthieu castet
2005-11-07 17:47 ` Greg KH
2005-11-06 18:44 ` matthieu castet
2005-11-07 17:47 ` Greg KH
2005-11-07 17:46 ` Greg KH
2005-11-07 18:47 ` matthieu castet
2005-11-07 22:27 ` matthieu castet
2005-11-07 23:02 ` matthieu castet
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