On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 01:57:18PM +0100, Alessandro Zummo wrote: > you're certainly right on the ixp4xx, but the are other uses > for this driver which we are working on.. for example, > some Cirrus Logic ARM based chips (ep93xx) have an ethernet device > that could benefit from that.
An alternative solution (suggested in the past) would be to have a generic kernel command line option such as: mac=<netdev>,<macaddr> It nicely solves the "no mac address" issue in a lot (if not all) of the cases. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
