netdev - Re: [RFC] ethernet: avoid pre-assigned OUI values in random_ether

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Date:	Sun, 15 May 2011 21:46:49 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] ethernet: avoid pre-assigned OUI values in
 random_ether_addr

Le vendredi 13 mai 2011 à 17:17 -0700, Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
> There are some addresses in the assigned vendor block that don't obey
> the locally assigned convention. These should be avoided by random_ether_addr
> assignment.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>


We call random_ether_addr() for some virtual devices, maybe we can add a
__random_ether_addr() helper for them and not avoid these OUI ?



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