From: Stefan Assmann <sassmann@redhat.com>
To: Alex Badea <abadea@ixiacom.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
davem@davemloft.net, Andy Gospodarek <gospo@redhat.com>,
"Rose, Gregory V" <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>,
"Duyck, Alexander H" <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>,
Casey Leedom <leedom@chelsio.com>,
Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] sysfs: add entry to indicate network interfaces with random MAC address
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:17:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C4593DA.9040207@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C458F50.4070200@ixiacom.com>
On 20.07.2010 13:58, Alex Badea wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 07/20/2010 02:47 PM, Stefan Assmann wrote:
>>> What about devices that 'steal' MAC addresses from slave devices?
>
> Might I suggest an attribute such as "address_type", which could report
> "permanent", "random", "stolen", or something else in the future?
In case there's demand for such a multi-purpose attribute I see no
reason to object. More thoughts on this?
Thanks for your suggestion Alex.
Stefan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-20 12:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-20 10:50 [PATCH net-next] sysfs: add entry to indicate network interfaces with random MAC address Stefan Assmann
2010-07-20 11:20 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-07-20 11:47 ` Stefan Assmann
2010-07-20 11:58 ` Alex Badea
2010-07-20 12:17 ` Stefan Assmann [this message]
2010-07-20 20:18 ` David Miller
2010-07-21 8:10 ` Stefan Assmann
2010-07-21 13:54 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-07-22 12:50 ` [PATCH net-next] sysfs: add attribute to indicate hw address assignment type Stefan Assmann
2010-07-22 14:07 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-07-22 14:47 ` Stefan Assmann
2010-07-25 3:50 ` David Miller
2010-07-20 12:07 ` [PATCH net-next] sysfs: add entry to indicate network interfaces with random MAC address Ben Hutchings
2010-07-20 12:41 ` Stefan Assmann
2010-07-20 14:29 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-07-20 20:17 ` David Miller
2010-07-20 21:18 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-07-20 21:20 ` David Miller
2010-07-21 6:26 ` Harald Hoyer
2010-07-21 6:34 ` David Miller
2010-07-21 6:47 ` Harald Hoyer
2010-07-21 15:07 ` Andy Gospodarek
2010-07-21 16:34 ` Casey Leedom
2010-07-21 17:28 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-07-21 17:32 ` David Miller
2010-07-21 18:29 ` Casey Leedom
2010-07-21 18:39 ` David Miller
2010-07-21 19:25 ` Casey Leedom
2010-07-21 18:43 ` Rose, Gregory V
2010-07-21 18:48 ` David Miller
2010-07-21 18:50 ` David Miller
2010-07-21 19:02 ` Rose, Gregory V
2010-07-21 19:33 ` David Miller
2010-07-21 19:35 ` Rose, Gregory V
2010-07-22 7:12 ` Ian Campbell
2010-07-22 6:53 ` Stefan Assmann
2010-07-23 0:26 ` Casey Leedom
2010-07-23 8:08 ` Stefan Assmann
2010-07-23 16:35 ` Casey Leedom
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