# Re: \[PATCH\] smsc95xx: add macaddr module parameter

- From: Alan Cox \<hidden\>
- Date: 2012-01-31 17:26:12 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2012/01/3816036
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2012/01/3816035/t.md

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On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:20:33 +0100
Danny Kukawka [ref] wrote:

> Added smsc95xx.macaddr module parameter to allow the user to
> change the MAC address on boot if there was no MAC on the EEPROM.

NAK. Please see the discussion on this and ifconfig hw for other devices.

In summary - make the device refuse to ifconfig up without a valid
address, allow it to come into existance without a valid address and then
use ifconfig.


Your patch also seems to break if there are several attached to a board.
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