On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 01:01:13AM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> From: John Bowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Some Ethernet hardware implementations have no built-in storage for
> allocated MAC values - an example is the Intel IXP420 chip which has
> support for Ethernet but no defined way of storing allocated MAC values.
> With such hardware different board level implementations store the
> allocated MAC (or MACs) in different ways. Rather than put board level
> code into a specific Ethernet driver this driver provides a generally
> accessible repository for the MACs which can be written by board level
> code and read by the driver.
>
> The implementation also allows user level programs to access the MAC
> information in /proc/net/maclist. This is useful as it allows user space
> code to use the MAC if it is not used by a built-in driver.
>
> This driver has been used for several months on various IXP420 based
> platforms within the NSLU2-Linux project, including the Linksys NSLU2.
> A sample implementation of the use of maclist is sent as patch 2. This
> one is for the Linksys NSLU2, but several more patches for other IXP420
> based platforms are available.
>...
Silly question:
Why can't this be implemented in user space using the SIOCSIFHWADDR
ioctl?
> Martin Michlmayr
cu
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