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[net-next,v4,0/3] netconsole: allow selection of egress interface via MAC address

Message ID 20250217-netconsole-v4-0-0c681cef71f1@purestorage.com
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Uday Shankar Feb. 17, 2025, 7:18 a.m. UTC 
This series adds support for selecting a netconsole egress interface by
specifying the MAC address (in place of the interface name) in the
boot/module parameter.

Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com>
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Changes in v4:
- Incorporate Breno Leitao's patch to add (non-RCU) dev_getbyhwaddr and
  use it (Jakub Kicinski)
- Use MAC_ADDR_STR_LEN in ieee80211_sta_debugfs_add as well (Michal
  Swiatkowski)
- Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250205-netconsole-v3-0-132a31f17199@purestorage.com

Changes in v3:
- Rename MAC_ADDR_LEN to MAC_ADDR_STR_LEN (Johannes Berg)
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250204-netconsole-v2-0-5ef5eb5f6056@purestorage.com

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Breno Leitao (1):
      net: Add non-RCU dev_getbyhwaddr() helper

Uday Shankar (2):
      net, treewide: define and use MAC_ADDR_STR_LEN
      netconsole: allow selection of egress interface via MAC address

 Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst |  6 +++-
 drivers/net/netconsole.c                |  2 +-
 drivers/nvmem/brcm_nvram.c              |  2 +-
 drivers/nvmem/layouts/u-boot-env.c      |  2 +-
 include/linux/if_ether.h                |  3 ++
 include/linux/netdevice.h               |  2 ++
 include/linux/netpoll.h                 |  6 ++++
 lib/net_utils.c                         |  4 +--
 net/core/dev.c                          | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
 net/core/netpoll.c                      | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c              |  7 +++--
 11 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 0784d83df3bfc977c13252a0599be924f0afa68d
change-id: 20250204-netconsole-4c610e2f871c

Best regards,

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Jakub Kicinski Feb. 17, 2025, 11:47 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:18:43 -0700 Uday Shankar wrote:
> This series adds support for selecting a netconsole egress interface by
> specifying the MAC address (in place of the interface name) in the
> boot/module parameter.

Breno is submitting the first patch with a fix, please wait for it 
to appear in net-next then rebase and repost. It's probably going
to happen on Friday.