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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka@bisect.de>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com>,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Danny Kukawka <dkukawka@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] smsc95xx: add macaddr module parameter
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:27:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120131172731.03df5704@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1328030433-12524-1-git-send-email-danny.kukawka@bisect.de>

On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:20:33 +0100
Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka@bisect.de> wrote:

> Added smsc95xx.macaddr module parameter to allow the user to
> change the MAC address on boot if there was no MAC on the EEPROM.

NAK. Please see the discussion on this and ifconfig hw for other devices.

In summary - make the device refuse to ifconfig up without a valid
address, allow it to come into existance without a valid address and then
use ifconfig.


Your patch also seems to break if there are several attached to a board.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-31 17:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-31 17:20 Danny Kukawka
2012-01-31 17:27 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2012-01-31 18:17   ` Danny Kukawka
2012-01-31 19:45     ` David Miller

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