Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] ethtool: flie option to register dump

From: Ingo Oeser <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:50:19 +0200

Hi Stephen,

Stephen Hemminger schrieb:
> Add ability to take old raw dumps from a file and decode them.
> It is kind of limited because you still need to have same device
> as the raw file, but useful for maintainers to decode raw dumps.

What about putting the (Permanent) MAC into the first 4-6 octets 
of the hexdump and decode+check+warn using this info first 
to avoid mixing up files?

Maybe only the first 4 octets to enhance privacy and still being able
to detect known "bad" series.

This might prevent user errors when sending such files
to developers.

Regards

Ingo Oeser