From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757407Ab2AXSjR (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:39:17 -0500 Received: from violet.fr.zoreil.com ([92.243.8.30]:43401 "EHLO violet.fr.zoreil.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754847Ab2AXSjP (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:39:15 -0500 Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:28:26 +0100 From: Francois Romieu To: Pavel Machek Cc: Alan Cox , "Torne (Richard Coles)" , nic_swsd@realtek.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: Randomise invalid MAC addresses Message-ID: <20120124182826.GA24128@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <1327343540-30348-1-git-send-email-torne@google.com> <20120123212914.747c852f@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> <20120124171546.GA32184@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120124171546.GA32184@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organisation: Land of Sunshine Inc. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Pavel Machek : [...] > 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