RE: [PATCH v2] r8152: Add support for setting MAC to system's Auxiliary MAC address

From: Mario_Limonciello
Date: Thu Jun 02 2016 - 15:04:42 EST


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> From: Andrew Lunn [mailto:andrew@xxxxxxx]
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> To: Limonciello, Mario <Mario_Limonciello@xxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] r8152: Add support for setting MAC to system's
> Auxiliary MAC address
>
> > > And you want to check this for all Dell devices? Please be model
> > > specific, I doubt a bunch of Dell servers wants to run this code...
> > >
> >
> > Tracking model specific is really going to turn into a giant list never ending
> list.
> > To drill down more specifically, I can match on chassis too.
>
> Does Dell happen to use its own USB Vendor ID for the USB device in
> the dock? You could go at this problem from the other direction if it
> does have a unique vendor ID.
>
> Andrew

Unfortunately it's not a Dell specific VID/PID. I'm asking around to find out
if there is something else identifiable about this dock's NIC (maybe that r8152
can query).