From: Paolo Pisati <p.pisati@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>,
Kristoffer Glembo <kristoffer@gaisler.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/6] kernel parameters: introduce "macaddr" to set mac address
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:15:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1351012533-3524-1-git-send-email-p.pisati@gmail.com> (raw)
In the past drivers grew mechanism to set their own mac address at boot time
via (usually) a module parameter. Unfortunately every single driver had its
own naming/implementation and it soon became clear that a generic
mechanism was needed.
Introduce "macaddr=", a new kernel parameter to set MAC address using
netdevice ops (and hence being hardware independent).
After 0001 is committed, we can garbage collect some custom driver code
that does the same functionality (0002-0006).
I couldn't find the maintainers of ksz884x, sunhme and fec, so pleace cc:
them if you know who they are.
Paolo Pisati (6):
macaddr kernel bootargs implementation
stmmac: remove mac address handling as a module parameter
ksz884x: remove mac address handling as a module parameter
greth: remove mac address handling as a module parameter
sunhme: remove mac address handling as a module parameter
fec: remove mac address handling as a module parameter
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 +
drivers/net/ethernet/aeroflex/greth.c | 36 +++-----
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec.c | 27 ++----
drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ksz884x.c | 57 ------------
drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 13 ---
drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunhme.c | 69 ++++----------
net/core/dev.c | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++
7 files changed, 140 insertions(+), 167 deletions(-)
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1.7.9.5
next reply other threads:[~2012-10-23 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-23 17:15 Paolo Pisati [this message]
2012-10-23 17:15 ` [PATCH 1/6] macaddr kernel bootargs implementation Paolo Pisati
2012-10-23 17:15 ` [PATCH 2/6] stmmac: remove mac address handling as a module parameter Paolo Pisati
2012-10-23 17:15 ` [PATCH 3/6] ksz884x: " Paolo Pisati
2012-10-23 17:15 ` [PATCH 4/6] greth: " Paolo Pisati
2012-10-23 17:15 ` [PATCH 5/6] sunhme: " Paolo Pisati
2012-10-23 17:15 ` [PATCH 6/6] fec: " Paolo Pisati
2012-10-23 17:20 ` [PATCH 0/6] kernel parameters: introduce "macaddr" to set mac address David Miller
2012-10-24 8:07 ` Paolo Pisati
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