From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Torne (Richard Coles)" <torne@google.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@gmail.com>,
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 21:43:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120123214318.7183775c@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEV-rjeC1NwbUwdmEEquGf7S8uttsW5hwTjF5nTC_JXY7=OC9A@mail.gmail.com>
> So, is this just not going to be acceptable in any form? What about
> refactoring the existing drivers that do this so that this code
> doesn't need to be repeated in every driver, if that would help? I'd
> really quite like to get standard linux distros to be compatible with
> the Joggler, and this is one of the few changes that's actually needed
> (one way or another).
It ought to be about a ten line change in Red Hat/Fedora, you could also
do it generically for most distributions as a udev rule.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-23 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-23 18:32 [PATCH] r8169: Randomise invalid MAC addresses 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 [this message]
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
2012-01-24 18:47 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-01-24 20:19 ` David Miller
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