Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] kernel parameters: introduce "macaddr" to set mac address

From: Paolo Pisati <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:07:54 +0200

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 01:20:37PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Paolo Pisati <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:15:27 +0200
> 
> > In the past drivers grew mechanism to set their own mac address at boot time
> > via (usually) a module parameter. Unfortunately every single driver had its
> > own naming/implementation and it soon became clear that a generic
> > mechanism was needed.
> > 
> > Introduce "macaddr=", a new kernel parameter to set MAC address using
> > netdevice ops (and hence being hardware independent).
> 
> Sorry, no, no module parameters.
> 
> Run time setting is the only reasonable way to set the MAC address
> explicitly.

actually it's a not a module parameter.

and what if you want to change your nic MAC at boot time? e.g. netboot
setup with different configs per different MACs.
-- 
bye,
p.