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From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 15:27:57 -0500

> I asked what do drivers do when the MAC address is not in the OF
> tree, and it is not programmed in hardware (any hardware).

They either fail to probe the device or use a random MAC address,
the later of which is severely frowned upon.