Thread (24 messages) 24 messages, 4 authors, 2012-07-02
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[PATCH 0/3] Add ability to set defaultless network device MAC addresses to deterministic computed locally administered values

From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
Date: 2012-06-29 08:50:28
Also in: linux-omap

On Friday 29 June 2012, Andy Green wrote:
The following series adds some code to generate legal, locally administered
MAC addresses from OMAP4 CPU Die ID fuse data, and then adds an api to
devices.c allowing board files to register device paths for network devices
that wish to use them.

On PandaBoard / ES, two devices have no board-level MAC either assigned by
the manufacturer or stored on the board, the last patch in the series adds
these device paths and gets them set when the network device is registered.

The patches are against today's linux-omap.
I had already provided my

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

when we discussed this last year, and Steven also gave his

Tested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

I have one comment to the second patch, which is changed slightly
from the older version.

	Arnd
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