From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: "\"Andy Green (林安廸)\"" <andy@warmcat.com>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org,
s-jan@ti.com, arnd@arndb.de, patches@linaro.org,
tony@atomide.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4 0/4] Add ability to set defaultless network device MAC addresses to deterministic computed locally administered values
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 09:08:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1341925729.14828.17.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FFC2712.9020208@warmcat.com>
On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 20:58 +0800, "Andy Green (林安廸)" wrote:
> On 10/07/12 20:37, the mail apparently from Florian Fainelli included:
>
> Why should Ubuntu, Fedora etc stink up their OSes with Panda-specific
> workarounds? And Panda is not the only device with this issue.
Actually I think you just answered your own question ;-)
Anyway, I don't think an initrd solution is the best. Yeah, it's fine
for a work around, but then I need to go and screw with the initrd if it
doesn't have support for the board. If the network card already has a
MAC address, why should the kernel give it another *random* one?
This isn't a complex patch set, where the complexity should be put into
userspace. And it makes it very convenient for people that just want the
board to boot so they can test it. I'm not developing any SoC or BSP,
I'm just using it to make sure my kernel changes can also be implemented
for ARM.
-- Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-10 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-05 2:44 Andy Green
2012-07-05 2:44 ` [PATCH 4 1/4] OMAP: add cpu id register to MAC address helper Andy Green
2012-07-05 2:44 ` [PATCH 4 2/4] NET ethernet introduce mac_platform helper Andy Green
2012-07-05 3:12 ` Joe Perches
2012-07-05 3:20 ` Andy Green
2012-07-05 3:25 ` Joe Perches
2012-07-06 22:40 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-05 2:44 ` [PATCH 4 3/4] OMAP4 PANDA register ethernet and wlan for automatic mac allocation Andy Green
2012-07-05 2:45 ` [PATCH 4 4/4] config test config extending omap2plus with wl12xx etc Andy Green
2012-07-10 12:37 ` [PATCH 4 0/4] Add ability to set defaultless network device MAC addresses to deterministic computed locally administered values Florian Fainelli
2012-07-10 12:58 ` "Andy Green (林安廸)"
2012-07-10 13:08 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2012-07-10 15:20 ` Alan Cox
2012-07-27 7:26 ` arm interrupt handling Qipeng Zha
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