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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] ethernet: avoid pre-assigned OUI values in
 random_ether_addr
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 21:46:49 +0200
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Le vendredi 13 mai 2011 =C3=A0 17:17 -0700, Stephen Hemminger a =C3=A9c=
rit :
> There are some addresses in the assigned vendor block that don't obey
> the locally assigned convention. These should be avoided by random_et=
her_addr
> assignment.
>=20
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>


We call random_ether_addr() for some virtual devices, maybe we can add =
a
__random_ether_addr() helper for them and not avoid these OUI ?