From: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
To: root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: thockin@hockin.org (Tim Hockin),
cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com (Chris Friesen),
rddunlap@osdl.org (Randy.Dunlap),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, abraham@2d3d.co.za
Subject: Re: ethtool documentation
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 20:33:47 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200208070333.g773Xmp03486@www.hockin.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1020806213513.26349A-100000@chaos.analogic.com> from "Richard B. Johnson" at Aug 06, 2002 09:42:18 PM
> If you really are what you say you are, then you know that you
> cannot use a MAC address that has not been assigned to your
> company.
Come on, of COURSE we don't ship MAC addresses that we don't own. We
(Cobalt) have/had a whole 24 bit address space allocated - just like the
other manufacturers of networked systems. Please give me a _little_
credit.
> The Linux pcnet32 driver does not have this capability so I
> had to add that capability for our purposes. I would not
So you're saying it is a useful feature, that you and I both use...
> advise putting such a driver in the standard kernel.
...but you don't think others should be able to. Why? Give me one good
reason that this capability should not be there for people to use.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-07 3:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-06 15:41 Randy.Dunlap
2002-08-06 19:24 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-08-06 19:40 ` Chris Friesen
2002-08-06 19:44 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-08-06 20:03 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-08-06 20:04 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-08-06 20:36 ` Ben Greear
2002-08-06 21:15 ` Tim Hockin
2002-08-07 1:42 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-08-07 3:33 ` Tim Hockin [this message]
2002-08-06 21:58 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-06 20:42 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-08-06 22:27 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-19 19:00 ` Mark H. Wood
2002-08-07 1:57 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-08-07 11:47 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-07 2:54 ` Ryan Anderson
2002-08-07 5:32 ` Dax Kelson
2002-08-07 6:30 ` Jonathan Lundell
2002-08-07 11:47 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-08 1:07 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-07 11:18 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-08-07 12:05 ` Abraham vd Merwe
2002-08-07 18:44 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2002-08-07 20:16 ` erik
2002-08-07 8:02 ` Abraham vd Merwe
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-08 9:18 Helge Hafting
2002-08-07 18:16 Leif Sawyer
2002-08-06 20:57 Leif Sawyer
2002-08-07 1:51 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-08-07 10:53 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-08-05 11:46 Abraham vd Merwe
2002-08-05 15:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-08-05 19:06 ` Tim Hockin
2002-08-05 19:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-08-05 19:30 ` Jonathan Lundell
2002-08-05 20:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-08-06 10:17 ` Abraham vd Merwe
2002-08-06 10:07 ` David S. Miller
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