[etherlab-users] Changing alias of slave (in the kernel)

[Richard Hacker]

On Thursday 04 October 2012 17:23:22 Shahbaz Youssefi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> To programmatically change the alias of a slave, I have been looking
> through the documentation + code of the EtherCAT master to find the proper
> way to do so with no luck.
No, this is not supported. Only the user space _ethercat_ command can do this.

You have a chicken and egg problem if you would like to do this from kernel 
space: When the master takes the network into operational state, it requires 
the alias. So there is no sense in setting the alias while in operational 
state. 

If you --really-- want to do it, check the code of the _ethercat_ command.



Richard Hacker

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