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From: David Miller <davem@...>

To: <riku.voipio@...>

Cc: <linux-arm-kernel@...>, <netdev@...>

Subject: Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver

Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 8:44 pm

From: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:15:30 +0200

quoted text> In such machines, typically the mac address is stored in bootloader's
> configuration area in NOR/NAND flash.

That's a perfectly fine solution as well.

Anything that specifies a unique MAC address somewhere on
the board is OK.

It's this "generate a random MAC address every bootup" that
I am totally against.  A situation where there is no permanent
MAC address stored anywhere.
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[PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Ilya Yanok, (Tue Mar 10, 10:29 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Stephen Hemminger, (Wed Mar 11, 12:18 am)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Michael Cashwell, (Thu Mar 12, 9:41 am)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, David Miller, (Thu Mar 12, 10:05 am)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Robert Schwebel, (Fri Mar 13, 3:49 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, David Miller, (Fri Mar 13, 4:12 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Jamie Lokier, (Thu Mar 12, 2:02 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Neil Horman, (Thu Mar 12, 10:26 am)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Sascha Hauer, (Wed Mar 11, 4:44 am)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, David Miller, (Wed Mar 11, 4:49 am)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Christer Weinigel, (Wed Mar 11, 4:56 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Stephen Hemminger, (Wed Mar 11, 8:13 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Christer Weinigel, (Thu Mar 12, 6:41 am)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, David Miller, (Thu Mar 12, 8:55 am)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Christer Weinigel, (Thu Mar 12, 10:21 am)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Neil Horman, (Thu Mar 12, 11:12 am)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Mike (mwester), (Thu Mar 12, 4:24 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Neil Horman, (Thu Mar 12, 8:29 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Christer Weinigel, (Thu Mar 12, 12:25 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Neil Horman, (Thu Mar 12, 1:49 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Christer Weinigel, (Thu Mar 12, 2:25 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Jamie Lokier, (Thu Mar 12, 3:25 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Christer Weinigel, (Thu Mar 12, 3:43 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Neil Horman, (Thu Mar 12, 3:05 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Jamie Lokier, (Thu Mar 12, 5:59 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Neil Horman, (Thu Mar 12, 8:16 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Christer Weinigel, (Thu Mar 12, 7:42 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Neil Horman, (Thu Mar 12, 8:21 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Neil Horman, (Fri Mar 13, 6:30 am)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Christer Weinigel, (Thu Mar 12, 3:29 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Sascha Hauer, (Thu Mar 12, 3:14 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, David Miller, (Thu Mar 12, 1:43 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Christer Weinigel, (Thu Mar 12, 1:52 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Jamie Lokier, (Thu Mar 12, 2:06 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Christer Weinigel, (Thu Mar 12, 2:48 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Sascha Hauer, (Thu Mar 12, 3:04 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Wolfgang Denk, (Thu Mar 12, 4:14 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Russell King - ARM Linux, (Thu Mar 12, 4:35 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Sascha Hauer, (Thu Mar 12, 4:27 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Christer Weinigel, (Thu Mar 12, 3:21 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Neil Horman, (Thu Mar 12, 3:16 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Jamie Lokier, (Thu Mar 12, 3:15 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Dan Williams, (Thu Mar 12, 2:39 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, David Miller, (Thu Mar 12, 11:01 am)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Sascha Hauer, (Thu Mar 12, 10:34 am)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Russell King - ARM Linux, (Wed Mar 11, 5:33 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Sascha Hauer, (Wed Mar 11, 4:57 am)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Wolfgang Denk, (Wed Mar 11, 5:09 am)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, David Miller, (Wed Mar 11, 9:23 am)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Riku Voipio, (Wed Mar 11, 3:15 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, David Miller, (Wed Mar 11, 8:44 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Robert Schwebel, (Wed Mar 11, 2:23 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Dan Williams, (Wed Mar 11, 10:00 am)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Sascha Hauer, (Wed Mar 11, 6:35 am)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver, Eric Dumazet, (Wed Mar 11, 12:00 am)

[PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver (updated), Ilya Yanok, (Wed Mar 11, 7:33 pm)

Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver (upda..., David Miller, (Thu Mar 12, 2:29 am)

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