Hi Vineet,
On Thu, 2018-08-02 at 21:58 +0000, Vineet Gupta wrote:
On 08/02/2018 03:19 AM, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
Otherwise kernel uses random MAC which is not very conveniet.
Curious what exactly is the issue - why does the user care what MAC is assigned ?
With that change in place use might set desired MAC in U-Boot with "setenv ethaddr 11:22:33:44:55:66", save environment and then from boot to boot the same MAC will be used by the kernel.
And what if one is running without uboot - it will resort to all zeros vs. random yet working MAC ?
If one is running without u-boot - it will resort to random MAC as we don't treat "00:00:00:00:00:00" as a valid Ethernet address.
Look at following link for more details. https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.18-rc8/source/include/linux/etherdevice....
BTW: Tested-by: Evgeniy Paltsev paltsev@synopsys.com
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