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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: venza@brownhat.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SIS900 show warning if bogus MAC address (take 2)
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:46:47 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090114.204647.247000830.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090113154407.9d2fe57c.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:44:07 -0800

> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:18:21 +0100
> Daniele Venzano <venza@brownhat.org> wrote:
> >
> > Subject: [PATCH] SIS900 show warning if bogus MAC address (take 2)
> >
> 
> The title is now wrong.  I rewrote it in my copy to
> 
> sis900: generate fake MAC address if the hardware doesn't have one

I've applied this patch with this correction to net-2.6

> So we generate the fake address a) if the reading failed and b) if the
> reading succeeded, but returned a bad address.
> 
> Fair enough, I guess.  I wonder if other drivers implement that policy.

Several do.

      reply	other threads:[~2009-01-15  4:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-13 18:18 [PATCH] SIS900 show warning if bogus MAC address (take 2) Daniele Venzano
2009-01-13 19:06 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-01-13 23:44 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-15  4:46   ` David Miller [this message]

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