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From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: Randomise invalid MAC addresses
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:28:26 +0100
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Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> :
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> Kernel should provide hw abstraction, and that should mean doing
> something about commonly-bad ethernet cards.

Ask for a refund ?

> Userspace does not quite cut it, think about nfsroot for example.

nfsroot without pxe or such ? A bit contrieved imho.

The eeprom may be writable though. Or not :o/

-- 
Ueimor