Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/2] Driver to remember ethernet MAC values:maclist

[Atsushi Nemoto]

>>>>> On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 01:01:13 +0000, Martin Michlmayr <tbm@xxxxxxxxxx> said:

tbm> Some Ethernet hardware implementations have no built-in storage
tbm> for allocated MAC values - an example is the Intel IXP420 chip
tbm> which has support for Ethernet but no defined way of storing
tbm> allocated MAC values.  With such hardware different board level
tbm> implementations store the allocated MAC (or MACs) in different
tbm> ways.  Rather than put board level code into a specific Ethernet
tbm> driver this driver provides a generally accessible repository for
tbm> the MACs which can be written by board level code and read by the
tbm> driver.

Slow response:

It can be done with register_netdevice_notifier().  You can catch
NETDEV_REGISTER event, check the device is what you expected by
looking dev->irq or something, and initialize dev->dev_addr.  Whole
these can be implemented in your board level code.

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Atsushi Nemoto
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