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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Charles.Hyde@dellteam.com
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, Mario.Limonciello@dell.com,
	oliver@neukum.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, nic_swsd@realtek.com
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4] Add usb_get_address and usb_set_address support
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 03:22:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190821012258.GB4285@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1566339522507.45056@Dellteam.com>

On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 10:18:42PM +0000, Charles.Hyde@dellteam.com wrote:
> The core USB driver message.c is missing get/set address functionality
> that stops ifconfig from being able to push MAC addresses out to USB
> based ethernet devices.  Without this functionality, some USB devices
> stop responding to ethernet packets when using ifconfig to change MAC
> addresses.

Hi Charles

ifconfig has been deprecated for years, maybe a decade. Please
reference the current tools, iproute2.

	  Andrew

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-08-21  1:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-20 22:18 [RFC 1/4] Add usb_get_address and usb_set_address support Charles.Hyde
2019-08-20 22:26 ` Greg KH
2019-08-21 23:35   ` Charles.Hyde
2019-08-22  8:08     ` Oliver Neukum
2019-08-22 17:14       ` Charles.Hyde
2019-08-20 22:28 ` Greg KH
2019-08-21  1:22 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2019-08-21 23:45   ` Charles.Hyde
2019-08-21  9:08 ` Oliver Neukum

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