[PATCH v2] ARM: LPC32xx: Ethernet driver
Roland Stigge
stigge at antcom.de
Tue Feb 28 08:32:49 EST 2012
Hi,
On 02/28/2012 02:11 PM, David Laight wrote:
>> Thanks for the note! I actually found out that in many cases, the
>> bootloader already initialized the hardware with the target
>> MAC address so we can use this one.
>>
>> For the case that it _isn't_ initialized already, is it the right
> thing
>> to use a hard coded default MAC address to be replaced by the final
> one
>> in userspace? (I found such examples in some current micrel/ and amd/
> drivers.)
>
> Using a fixed address is a very bad idea ...
Yes, that's why we previously had a cmdline param for it (but removed it
upon request from the netdev maintainer).
So if the hardware defaults to 00:00:00:00:00:00, what is the
"consistent policy we want to enforce in all drivers"?
A link or hint would be sufficient.
Thanks in advance,
Roland
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