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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SIS900 show warning if bogus MAC address (take 2)
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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.