Re: [PATCH] r8152: Add MAC passthrough support to new device

From: Kai-Heng Feng
Date: Tue Jan 14 2020 - 04:22:54 EST




> On Jan 14, 2020, at 16:23, Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Am Dienstag, den 14.01.2020, 12:41 +0800 schrieb Kai-Heng Feng:
>> Device 0xa387 also supports MAC passthrough, therefore add it to the
>> whitelst.
>
> Hi,
>
> this list is getting longer and longer. Isn't there a way to do
> this generically? ACPI?

ACPI only provides the MAC address, to write the MAC to r8152 it still requires hardware support.
So we need to use whitelist here, not all r8152 support this feature.

Kai-Heng

>
> Regards
> Oliver
>