From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: steve.glendinning@shawell.net
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, bjorn@mork.no, dcbw@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] smsc75xx: only set mac address once on bind
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:10:08 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121210.141008.1837161608811155049.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1355137279-2695-1-git-send-email-steve.glendinning@shawell.net>
From: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@shawell.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:01:19 +0000
> This patch changes when we decide what the device's MAC address
> is from per ifconfig up to once when the device is connected.
>
> Without this patch, a manually forced device MAC is overwritten
> on ifconfig down/up. Also devices that have no EEPROM are
> assigned a new random address on ifconfig down/up instead of
> persisting the same one.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@shawell.net>
> Reported-by: Robert Cunningham <rcunningham@nsmsurveillance.com>
Applied.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-10 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-10 11:01 [PATCH] smsc75xx: only set mac address once on bind Steve Glendinning
2012-12-10 19:10 ` David Miller [this message]
2012-12-10 23:00 ` Dan Williams
2012-12-11 14:35 ` Steve Glendinning
2012-12-11 14:59 ` Dan Williams
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