Dear Tom,
In message <20211116184146.GF24579@bill-the-cat> you wrote:
>
> Because honestly, the more I read this, the more I think
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/20211115121152.3470910-1-m=
> ich...@walle.cc/
> is essentially the right direction. There's no reason for 'net list' to
> be using the environment here when ->enetaddr is what's being used by
> the stack. The use case of "I want to make my locally administered MAC
> persist because my USB ethernet adapter lacks a MAC address" is solved
> via the environment already.
If the MAC address is not placed in the environment, then how can a
user query the currently used MAC address? All documentation says
basically: run "printenv ethaddr".
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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