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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 18:45:38 +0100

> I believe this may have been intentional, but what sense does it have to
> use dev_addr as destination address? That is what I do not understand.

It's the only address we know isn't someone else's and is not broadcast.