On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 07:04:32PM +0000, mario_limoncie...@dell.com wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew Lunn [mailto:and...@lunn.ch]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 2, 2016 2:03 PM
> > To: Limonciello, Mario <mario_limoncie...@dell.com>
> > Cc: gre...@linuxfoundation.org; hayesw...@realtek.com; linux-
> > ker...@vger.kernel.org; net...@vger.kernel.org; linux-
> > u...@vger.kernel.org; pali.ro...@gmail.com; anthony.w...@canonical.com
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] r8152: Add support for setting MAC to system's
> > Auxiliary MAC address
> >
> > > > And you want to check this for all Dell devices? Please be model
> > > > specific, I doubt a bunch of Dell servers wants to run this code...
> > > >
> > >
> > > Tracking model specific is really going to turn into a giant list never
> > > ending
> > list.
> > > To drill down more specifically, I can match on chassis too.
> >
> > Does Dell happen to use its own USB Vendor ID for the USB device in
> > the dock? You could go at this problem from the other direction if it
> > does have a unique vendor ID.
> >
> > Andrew
>
> Unfortunately it's not a Dell specific VID/PID. I'm asking around to find out
> if there is something else identifiable about this dock's NIC (maybe that
> r8152
> can query).
lsusb -v
I assume there is a USB hub in the dock, maybe that has a Dell VID?
Going one level up the USB tree hierarchy should not be too hard.
Andrew
