Subject: Re: dm9000: add set_mac_address()

From: Ben Dooks <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:10:10 +0100

On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 07:08:52PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> set_mac_address should not write to the SROM, as Michael noted.
> 
> The proper operations are:
> 
>     probe time:
> 	read MAC address from SROM
> 
>     dev open (interface up):
> 	write dev->dev_addr[] to RX filter (or identity) registers
> 
> EEPROM update support is available separately, via an ethtool sub-ioctl.

This sounds sensible, I am working on adding ethtool support
and should have a patch available in the next day or so.

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