Jon Wetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > This patch addresses an issue in which hardware detection programs > cannot correctly identify network cards due to their mutable MAC > addresses stored in net_device struct. As an example, in a configuration > with NIC team/bond, the MAC addresses in the dev_addr in net_device > struct of the members of a team/bond are changed to reflect MAC address > of the active/primary NIC. This causes Kudzu (RedHat hardware discovery > program) to identify them as something new or removed. This patch > provides a way to query the "permanent" MAC address stored in the EEPROM > of the card. This patch makes the following changes to support the > lookup of the factory provided mac address:
Why not run Kudzu (or such) sooner (i.e. before anything else forces a different mac address) ? It looks like a userspace issue, not a kernel one. (nit) s/perm_addr/eeprom_addr/g ? -- Ueimor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
