[PATCH 2/3] UBUNTU: SAUCE: smsc95xx: fix macaddr parameter parsing

[Tim Gardner]

On 07/14/2010 10:04 PM, Bryan Wu wrote:
> On 07/13/2010 03:43 PM, Sebastien Jan wrote:
>> On 07/13/2010 05:39 AM, Bryan Wu wrote:
>>> Sebjan,
>>>
>>> Why call this patch 'UBUNTU: SAUCE'? It is supposed to be upstream. I saw your
>>> patches in netdev mail list. Except that, I am OK for this patch.
>>
>> The netdev maintainers do not want to handle MAC address passing at this driver level, so this patch will not go upstream. They propose instead to use already existing network APIs: for example, by doing a MAC address reconfiguration in the initramfs.
>> For short term pandaboard support, I propose to use this patch. We can remove it when we implement this MAC address change within initramfs.
>>
>
> Fair enough, I intent to keep it in our Ubuntu shortly.
>
> Tim, is that possible to merge this?
>
> Thanks,

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