On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 02:47:35 +0100 Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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 > > c > Silly question: > > Why can't this be implemented in user space using the SIOCSIFHWADDR > ioctl? Because sometimes you need to have networking available well before userspace. (netconsole, root over nfs, ...) -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Turin, Italy http://www.towertech.it - 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
