From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756566Ab2AXNaA (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:30:00 -0500 Received: from mail-gx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.161.174]:35494 "EHLO mail-gx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756509Ab2AXN36 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:29:58 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120123214318.7183775c@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> References: <1327343540-30348-1-git-send-email-torne@google.com> <20120123214318.7183775c@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:29:56 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: Randomise invalid MAC addresses From: "Torne (Richard Coles)" To: Alan Cox Cc: Paul Gortmaker , nic_swsd@realtek.com, romieu@fr.zoreil.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-System-Of-Record: true Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 23 January 2012 21:43, Alan Cox wrote: >> 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. OK; I'll work on that instead. Thanks for the feedback all. -- Torne (Richard Coles) torne@google.com