netdev - Re: drivers/net/sunhme.c patch

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Message-Id: <20071029.154139.19375144.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:41:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jengelh@...putergmbh.de
Cc:	toms@...derland.us.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: drivers/net/sunhme.c patch

From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:12:25 +0100 (CET)

> The question was more like: if I put in a QFE (that was acquired together
> with a SUN E250) into x86, would I get duplicate MACs? (Would be strange -
> I would have supposed the OF on the card is independent.)

You are not supposed to.  Each HME instance should get a unique
MAC.

Normally OF would propagate this information around to the independant
device nodes, and we should try to preserve this behavior for non-OF
systems.
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