[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] net: extend the netdev to have a common way to set the hw mac address

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 13 May 2009 04:41:29 Detlev Zundel wrote:
> >> I never ran across this outside of linux arm where people seriously
> >> repeat the statement over and over that a whole initramfs with an
> >> initial userspace and a pivot_root is plausible for nfs root whilst
> >> patches of a few lines float around doing the same in the kernel.
> >
> > i never said that a completely populated initramfs was needed.  it can be
> > accomplished pretty easily with very little code.
>
> Sure, but still, how big is such an initramfs, do you have any numbers
> here?
>
> And how many lines of C code does it take to set the MAC in the kernel?
> Is this really worth it?

that is the problem of whoever needs this functionality.
-mike