On 06/25/2010 03:25 AM, Simon Horman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:14:14AM +0200, Sebastien Jan wrote: >> Define a new module parameter 'macaddr' to override the MAC address >> fetched either from eeprom, or randomly generated. >> >> The expected MAC address shall be in the 01:23:45:67:89:AB format. > > I'm confused as to why this is desirable when the mac address > can already be configured after module insertion via > smsc95xx_netdev_ops.eth_mac_addr().
For example for booting over NFS using a pre-defined MAC address, with a minimal setup (no initrd). Or is there another way to force a MAC address for this use-case? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
