linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] r8169: Randomise invalid MAC addresses

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Date:	Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:29:56 +0000
From:	"Torne (Richard Coles)" <torne@...gle.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...il.com>, nic_swsd@...ltek.com,
	romieu@...zoreil.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: Randomise invalid MAC addresses

On 23 January 2012 21:43, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>> So, is this just not going to be acceptable in any form? What about
>> refactoring the existing drivers that do this so that this code
>> doesn't need to be repeated in every driver, if that would help? I'd
>> really quite like to get standard linux distros to be compatible with
>> the Joggler, and this is one of the few changes that's actually needed
>> (one way or another).
>
> It ought to be about a ten line change in Red Hat/Fedora, you could also
> do it generically for most distributions as a udev rule.

OK; I'll work on that instead. Thanks for the feedback all.

-- 
Torne (Richard Coles)
torne@...gle.com
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