This series adds support for selecting a netconsole egress interface by
specifying the MAC address (in place of the interface name) in the
boot/module parameter.
Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <redacted>
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Changes in v5:
- Drop Breno Leitao's patch to add (non-RCU) dev_getbyhwaddr from this
set since it has landed on net-next (Jakub Kicinski)
- Link to v4: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250217-netconsole-v4-0-0c681cef71f1@purestorage.com (local)
Changes in v4:
- Incorporate Breno Leitao's patch to add (non-RCU) dev_getbyhwaddr and
use it (Jakub Kicinski)
- Use MAC_ADDR_STR_LEN in ieee80211_sta_debugfs_add as well (Michal
Swiatkowski)
- Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250205-netconsole-v3-0-132a31f17199@purestorage.com (local)
Changes in v3:
- Rename MAC_ADDR_LEN to MAC_ADDR_STR_LEN (Johannes Berg)
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250204-netconsole-v2-0-5ef5eb5f6056@purestorage.com (local)
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Uday Shankar (2):
net, treewide: define and use MAC_ADDR_STR_LEN
netconsole: allow selection of egress interface via MAC address
Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst | 6 +++-
drivers/net/netconsole.c | 2 +-
drivers/nvmem/brcm_nvram.c | 2 +-
drivers/nvmem/layouts/u-boot-env.c | 2 +-
include/linux/if_ether.h | 3 ++
include/linux/netpoll.h | 6 ++++
lib/net_utils.c | 4 +--
net/core/netpoll.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c | 7 +++--
9 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 1340461e5168f8a33b2b3e0ed04557742664bee1
change-id: 20250204-netconsole-4c610e2f871c
Best regards,
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Uday Shankar [off-list ref]