Re: [PATCH v6] r8152: Add support for setting pass through MAC address on RTL8153-AD

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 06:28:10PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Saturday 11 June 2016 19:42:26 David Miller wrote:
> > From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
> > Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2016 17:39:21 +0200
> > 
> > > What is still open is do we want to accept it at all? Do we accept
> > > the concept of putting the same MAC address on multiple interfaces
> > > at hotplug time? Do we trust BIOS vendors to not keep changing
> > > DSDT property name, since it is not standardised?
> > > 
> > > Do we want this at all should be decided by somebody more senior
> > > then those passing comments on the code.
> > 
> > Indeed, I think the behavior of using the same MAC address on
> > multiple interfaces if we plug several of these in at once is not
> > good.
> > 
> > We shouldn't behave this way just because the Microsoft driver does.
> 
> I agree, but in some cases it is night mare for local admins when 
> booting different OS cause changing MAC address on local network.
> 
> Another similar situation: Imagine that you have two USB network cards 
> and both have "burned" into their registers same MAC address. If you 
> connect both those USB network cards, linux kernel bind appropriate 
> driver which read MAC address for both those cards. But those addresses 
> are same. What will linux kernel do in this case?

If you can find such a broken USB device, try it and see :)

(hint, might be hard to find, I've never seen such a device before.)

I don't see how that pertains to this issue, sorry, how does broken USB
hardware compare to a working Dell device?

thanks,

greg k-h