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

[jamal]

On Mon, 2006-20-02 at 14:07 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 01:57:18PM +0100, Alessandro Zummo wrote:
> 

> Or just pass the MAC along in platform device style.  What I did in
> drivers/net/ixp2000/ was to have enp2611.c (board-specific code) read
> the MAC from the board, and pass it to ixpdev.c (generic code) in the
> net_device structure.
> 

yep, this is what i have seen done in a lot of embedded boards
containing switching chips (If i am not mistaken there is a 4 port
switch in the IXP4xx)

cheers,
jamal

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