From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: f.suligoi@asem.it
Cc: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: e1000e: add MAC address kernel cmd line parameter
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 10:21:43 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190228.102143.968303356613794513.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1551345635-10291-1-git-send-email-f.suligoi@asem.it>
From: Flavio Suligoi <f.suligoi@asem.it>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 10:20:35 +0100
> Sometimes, in some embedded systems boards (i.e. ARM boards),
> the NVM eeprom is not mounted, to save cost and space.
>
> In this case it is necessary to bypass the NVM management
> and directly force the MAC address using a kernel command-line
> parameter (macaddr).
>
> Signed-off-by: Flavio Suligoi <f.suligoi@asem.it>
Sorry, we don't do things this way. Otherwise every single driver would
add a hack like this.
Add either DT or appropriate initrd userland components to achieve
this.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-02 7:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-28 9:20 [PATCH] net: e1000e: add MAC address kernel cmd line parameter Flavio Suligoi
2019-02-28 13:38 ` [PATCH v2] " Flavio Suligoi
2019-02-28 13:52 ` [PATCH v3] " Flavio Suligoi
2019-02-28 15:32 ` Andrew Lunn
2019-02-28 15:51 ` Flavio Suligoi
2019-02-28 16:37 ` Andrew Lunn
2019-02-28 17:13 ` Flavio Suligoi
2019-02-28 19:29 ` Andrew Lunn
2019-02-28 19:47 ` David Miller
2019-03-01 8:15 ` Flavio Suligoi
2019-02-28 18:21 ` David Miller [this message]
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