netdev - Re: [PATCH] r8169: Randomise invalid MAC addresses

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Message-ID: <20120124182826.GA24128@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
Date:	Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:28:26 +0100
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"Torne (Richard Coles)" <torne@...gle.com>, nic_swsd@...ltek.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: Randomise invalid MAC addresses

Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> :
[...]
> Kernel should provide hw abstraction, and that should mean doing
> something about commonly-bad ethernet cards.

Ask for a refund ?

> Userspace does not quite cut it, think about nfsroot for example.

nfsroot without pxe or such ? A bit contrieved imho.

The eeprom may be writable though. Or not :o/

-- 
Ueimor
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