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
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