Re: [RFC 1/4] Add usb_get_address and usb_set_address support
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Date: 2019-08-21 01:23:10
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linux-acpi, linux-usb
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