From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Torne (Richard Coles)" <torne@google.com>
Cc: nic_swsd@realtek.com, romieu@fr.zoreil.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: Randomise invalid MAC addresses
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:29:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120123212914.747c852f@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1327343540-30348-1-git-send-email-torne@google.com>
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:32:20 +0000
"Torne (Richard Coles)" <torne@google.com> wrote:
> From: "Torne (Richard Coles)" <torne@google.com>
>
> If the default MAC address stored in the card is invalid, replace it
> with a random address and complain about it.
See the discussion about the pch ethernet card. Detect the error and warn
about it, block opening it and let the user set it with ifconfig xx hw
aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-23 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-23 18:32 Torne (Richard Coles)
2012-01-23 18:49 ` Joe Perches
2012-01-23 20:53 ` Paul Gortmaker
2012-01-23 21:35 ` Torne (Richard Coles)
2012-01-23 21:43 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-24 13:29 ` Torne (Richard Coles)
2012-01-23 21:29 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2012-01-24 17:15 ` Pavel Machek
2012-01-24 18:28 ` Francois Romieu
2012-01-24 18:47 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-01-24 20:19 ` David Miller
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