Re: [PATCH] r8169: Randomise invalid MAC addresses

[Francois Romieu]

Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> :
[...]
> Kernel should provide hw abstraction, and that should mean doing
> something about commonly-bad ethernet cards.

Ask for a refund ?

> Userspace does not quite cut it, think about nfsroot for example.

nfsroot without pxe or such ? A bit contrieved imho.

The eeprom may be writable though. Or not :o/

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Ueimor
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