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

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Message-ID: <20120123214318.7183775c@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:43:18 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	"Torne (Richard Coles)" <torne@...gle.com>
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

> 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.

Alan
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