[PATCH v3 0/2] netconsole: allow selection of egress interface via MAC address

From: Uday Shankar
Date: Thu Feb 06 2025 - 00:21:54 EST


This series adds support for selecting a netconsole egress interface by
specifying the MAC address (in place of the interface name) in the
boot/module parameter.

Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Changes in v3:
- Rename MAC_ADDR_LEN to MAC_ADDR_STR_LEN (Johannes Berg)
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250204-netconsole-v2-0-5ef5eb5f6056@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Uday Shankar (2):
net, treewide: define and use MAC_ADDR_STR_LEN
netconsole: allow selection of egress interface via MAC address

Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst | 6 +++-
drivers/net/netconsole.c | 2 +-
drivers/nvmem/brcm_nvram.c | 2 +-
drivers/nvmem/layouts/u-boot-env.c | 2 +-
include/linux/if_ether.h | 3 ++
include/linux/netpoll.h | 6 ++++
lib/net_utils.c | 4 +--
net/core/netpoll.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c | 5 ++--
9 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 3924fa995cdf3752f2f89f8de72834c4638c5ebf
change-id: 20250204-netconsole-4c610e2f871c

Best regards,
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Uday Shankar <ushankar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>