17 Nov
2021
17 Nov
'21
8:44 a.m.
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= ichael@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".
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Wolfgang Denk
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