[PATCH net-next] net/ncsi: allow to customize BMC MAC Address offset

[Tao Ren]

On 8/13/19 9:31 AM, Terry Duncan wrote:
> Tao, in your new patch will it be possible to disable the setting of the BMC MAC?  I would like to be able to send NCSI_OEM_GET_MAC perhaps with netlink (TBD) to get the system address without it affecting the BMC address.
> 
> I was about to send patches to add support for the Intel adapters when I saw this thread.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Terry

Hi Terry,

Sounds like you are planning to configure BMC MAC address from user space via netlink? Ben Wei <benwei at fb.com> started a thread "Out-of-band NIC management" in openbmc community for NCSI management using netlink, and you may follow up with him for details.

I haven't decided what to do in my v2 patch: maybe using device tree, maybe moving the logic to uboot, and I'm also evaluating the netlink option. But it shouldn't impact your patch, because you can disable NCSI_OEM_GET_MAC option from your config file.


Cheers,

Tao