Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:56:04 -0800 (PST) | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pch_gbe: Use a randomly generated MAC instead of failing probe | | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:54:27 -0800
>> Please correct any hardware that hasn't shipped yet or is alpha/beta >> hardware in testing, so that we don't need stuff like this. > > I saw that the use of random_ether_addr is fairly prevalent, and > attempted a roughly similar sort of approach to others I had seen. Do > you consider all of those to be "necessary evils" or are there > legitimate situations for its use? > > In any case, with existing hardware out there that is unusable with the > current pch_gbe driver, can we consider this workaround for inclusion?
I fear that people are just going to add this random MAC stuff way too easily, it's a spreading disease.
Ship functional hardware instead.
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