From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] sysfs: add entry to indicate network interfaces with random MAC address Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:50:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100721.115023.69942880.davem@davemloft.net> References: <201007211129.48288.leedom@chelsio.com> <43F901BD926A4E43B106BF17856F0755F184620A@orsmsx508.amr.corp.intel.com> <20100721.114851.200597269.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: leedom@chelsio.com, shemminger@vyatta.com, andy@greyhouse.net, harald@redhat.com, bhutchings@solarflare.com, sassmann@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com, alexander.h.duyck@intel.com To: gregory.v.rose@intel.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100721.114851.200597269.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: David Miller Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:48:51 -0700 (PDT) > You could do things like have the PF controller use the root filesystem > ID label to construct the VF's MAC address, or something like that. And here I of course mean the root filesystem of the guest the VF will be given to.