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From: Christer Weinigel <christer@weinigel.se>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:21:47 +0100

> Yes, that why I'd want that in a generic piece of code instead of
> having to hack it into each device driver.  Would a generic command
> line option, something like "ethaddrs=eth0=00:de:ad:be:ef:01" which
> assigns addresses to network cards be acceptable?

Yep, and you can parse that and execute the appropriate
ifconfig command from userspace in your initial ramdisk.