Re: [PATCH] r8169: Randomise invalid MAC addresses
From: Francois Romieu
Date: Tue Jan 24 2012 - 13:39:14 EST
Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> :
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> 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/
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Ueimor
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