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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] smsc75xx: only set mac address once on bind
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:10:08 -0500 (EST)
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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.