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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [Patch net] net: allow setting mac address of loopback device
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:27:11 -0800 (PST)
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From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:38:51 -0800

> We are trying to mirror the local traffic from lo to eth0,
> allowing setting mac address of lo to eth0 would make
> the ether addresses in these packets correct, so that
> we don't have to modify the ether header again.
> 
> Since usually no one cares about its mac address (all-zero),
> it is safe to allow those who care to set its mac address.
> 
> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>

Please resubmit when the net-next tree opens back up.

Thank you.