On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 07:53:04PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 11:06 -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > > And if we really want seamless support for MAC spoofing, we want > > ETHTOOL_GPERMADDR for all drivers too, so that if your configuration > > says "rename device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX to YY:YY:YY:YY:YY:YY" we can > > actually figure stuff out after the spoof. > > ETHTOOL_GPERMADDR is handled in the ethtool core now. Are you thinking > of drivers that don't have ethtool ops? Maybe it's time to add default > operations. Not quite true -- dev->perm_addr still has to be set by the driver. John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
