From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755708Ab2GJM7M (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:59:12 -0400 Received: from warmcat.com ([87.106.134.80]:42366 "EHLO warmcat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755681Ab2GJM7I (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:59:08 -0400 Message-ID: <4FFC2712.9020208@warmcat.com> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 20:58:58 +0800 From: =?UTF-8?B?IkFuZHkgR3JlZW4gKOael+WuieW7uCki?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120615 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Florian Fainelli CC: 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, rostedt@goodmis.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4 0/4] Add ability to set defaultless network device MAC addresses to deterministic computed locally administered values References: <20120705024259.26317.16000.stgit@build.warmcat.com> <201207101437.54877.florian@openwrt.org> In-Reply-To: <201207101437.54877.florian@openwrt.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/07/12 20:37, the mail apparently from Florian Fainelli included: Hi - > Le jeudi 05 juillet 2012 04:44:33, Andy Green a écrit : >> The following series adds some code to generate legal, locally administered >> MAC addresses from OMAP4 CPU Die ID fuse data, and then adds a helper at >> net/ethernet taking care of accepting device path / MAC mapping >> registrations and running a notifier to enforce the requested MAC when the >> matching network device turns up. > > This looks like something you can solve by user-space entirely. Expose the That might seem so from a openwrt perspective, where you custom cook the whole userland thing per-device, but it ain't so from a generic rootfs perspective. Why should Ubuntu, Fedora etc stink up their OSes with Panda-specific workarounds? And Panda is not the only device with this issue. -Andy