From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
"Torne (Richard Coles)" <torne@google.com>,
nic_swsd@realtek.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: Randomise invalid MAC addresses
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:28:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120124182826.GA24128@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120124171546.GA32184@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-24 18:39 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
2012-01-24 17:15 ` Pavel Machek
2012-01-24 18:28 ` Francois Romieu [this message]
2012-01-24 18:47 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-01-24 20:19 ` David Miller
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