linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pch_gbe: Use a randomly generated MAC instead of failing probe

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Message-ID: <20120116170251.3e5d07cd@bob.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:02:51 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@...ux.intel.com>,
	Tomoya MORINAGA <tomoya.rohm@...il.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com,
	paul.gortmaker@...driver.com, jdmason@...zu.us,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pch_gbe: Use a randomly generated MAC instead of
 failing probe

> bootloader configuration) - for a lot of applications random
> generation doesn't help that much as entropy is hard to come by.

This is an x86 platform - plenty of entropy from the tsc etc.

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