netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] r8169: add random MAC address fallback

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Date:   Tue, 02 Jul 2019 15:28:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hkallweit1@...il.com
Cc:     nic_swsd@...ltek.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] r8169: add random MAC address fallback

From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 20:46:09 +0200

> It was reported that the GPD MicroPC is broken in a way that no valid
> MAC address can be read from the network chip. The vendor driver deals
> with this by assigning a random MAC address as fallback. So let's do
> the same.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
> ---
> v2:
> - fix broken commit message

Applied, thanks.