Re: [PATCH v2] r8152: Add support for setting MAC to system's Auxiliary MAC address

On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 07:04:32PM +0000, Mario_Limonciello@Dell.com wrote:

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] r8152: Add support for setting MAC to system's
Auxiliary MAC address

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And you want to check this for all Dell devices?  Please be model
specific, I doubt a bunch of Dell servers wants to run this code...

Tracking model specific is really going to turn into a giant list never ending

list.

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To drill down more specifically, I can match on chassis too.

Does Dell happen to use its own USB Vendor ID for the USB device in
the dock? You could go at this problem from the other direction if it
does have a unique vendor ID.

     Andrew

Unfortunately it's not a Dell specific VID/PID.  I'm asking around to find out
if there is something else identifiable about this dock's NIC (maybe that r8152 
can query).

lsusb -v

I assume there is a USB hub in the dock, maybe that has a Dell VID?
Going one level up the USB tree hierarchy should not be too hard.

      Andrew