Re: Automatic MAC address retrieval/access

Hey Markku,

An interesting idea; I'd look at a patch. But I don't think it's a tremendous 
issue. The code for listing devices is qualitatively quite different from the 
code for working with devices.

Eddie


On 11/16/2011 02:47 AM, Markku Savela wrote:
> On 11/14/2011 05:37 PM, Eddie Kohler wrote:
>> What you should do is extend AddressInfo::create_deviceinfo if
>> possible. This function should find ALL devices attached to the
>
> Thanks, I will explore this... but, doesn't AddressInfo use some
> underlying directory object (element?) to store the information.
>
> I'm just wondering, if it would be better architecture if AddressInfo
> didn't contain all these device specific ifdef's. Instead, the
> elements interfacing to the drivers could populate the database
> and address info would just find it?
>