Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Feb 2006 03:39:00 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/2] Driver to remember ethernet MAC values: maclist |
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On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 03:01:46AM +0100, Alessandro Zummo wrote: > On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 02:47:35 +0100 > Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote: > > > > Some Ethernet hardware implementations have no built-in storage for > > > allocated MAC values - an example is the Intel IXP420 chip which has > > > support for Ethernet but no defined way of storing allocated MAC values. > > > With such hardware different board level implementations store the > > > allocated MAC (or MACs) in different ways. Rather than put board level > > > c > > Silly question: > > > > Why can't this be implemented in user space using the SIOCSIFHWADDR > > ioctl? > > Because sometimes you need to have networking available > well before userspace. > > (netconsole, root over nfs, ...)
Why can't setting MAC addresses be done from initramfs?
> Best regards, > Alessandro Zummo,
cu Adrian
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