I wonder if they would be more open to accepting that patch now? - Greg Scott
-----Original Message----- From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 11:55 AM To: Chris Wedgwood Cc: Greg Scott; Chuck Ebbert; linux-kernel; David S. Miller; netdev@vger.kernel.org; Bart Samwel; Alan Cox; Simon Mackinlay Subject: Re: Router stops routing after changing MAC Address On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:07:43 -0800 Chris Wedgwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 10:00:41AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > There still is a bug in the 3c59x driver. It doesn't include any > > code to handle changing the mac address. It will work if you take > > the device down, change address, then bring it up. But you shouldn't > > have to do that. > > I sent a patch do to this probably a year or two back and it was > rejected (by akpm if I recall) because of the argument that you could > and should take it down, change the MAC and bring it back up. > > Is this no longer a requirement? No. most drivers allow changes on the fly. - 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
