netdev - Re: [PATCH 37/50] usbnet: set addr_assign_type if random_ether

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Message-Id: <201202091555.15071.oliver@neukum.org>
Date:	Thu, 9 Feb 2012 15:55:14 +0100
From:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
To:	Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>
Cc:	Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka@...ect.de>,
	Danny Kukawka <dkukawka@...e.de>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 37/50] usbnet: set addr_assign_type if random_ether_addr() used

Am Donnerstag, 9. Februar 2012, 07:57:42 schrieb Bjørn Mork:
> > Don't you set the flag too early here? By that time we don't know
> > whether the device provides a real MAC, do we?
> 
> Maybe it makes sense to set it here anyway since usbnet provides this
> default random address, and let the minidrivers which set a real mac
> also clear the flag?  But in that case the patch need to clear the flag
> everywhere a minidriver currently updates the address.
> 

Doable, but where is the benefit? It seems better to me to make an effort
to guess as well as possible in the common code.

	Regards
		Oliver
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