[PATCH net-next v4 0/3] netconsole: allow selection of egress interface via MAC address
From: Uday Shankar
Date: Mon Feb 17 2025 - 02:19:27 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 v4:
- Incorporate Breno Leitao's patch to add (non-RCU) dev_getbyhwaddr and
use it (Jakub Kicinski)
- Use MAC_ADDR_STR_LEN in ieee80211_sta_debugfs_add as well (Michal
Swiatkowski)
- Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250205-netconsole-v3-0-132a31f17199@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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Breno Leitao (1):
net: Add non-RCU dev_getbyhwaddr() helper
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/netdevice.h | 2 ++
include/linux/netpoll.h | 6 ++++
lib/net_utils.c | 4 +--
net/core/dev.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
net/core/netpoll.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c | 7 +++--
11 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 0784d83df3bfc977c13252a0599be924f0afa68d
change-id: 20250204-netconsole-4c610e2f871c
Best regards,
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Uday Shankar <ushankar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>