Subject: Re: [PATCH] via-rhine: do not abort due to invalid MAC address

From: Roger Luethi <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 20:52:05 +0100

On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:36:10 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: "Alex G." <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 20:11:08 +0200
> 
> > On 03/02/2011 08:01 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> >> 
> >> Why not generate a valid random ethernet address using random_ether_addr() 
> >> instead?
> > 
> > That would confuse ifcfg-* scripts that specify HWETHER, and probably
> > users as well. It might even stump udev.
> 
> If the ethernet address reported by the card is garbage, every single
> ethernet driver that tried to handle this case uses a random ethernet
> address.
>
> There is no reason to choose a different strategy for this driver.

Fair enough. I did not know other drivers had already dealt with the same
problem. My bad. Alex, can you redo the patch accordingly?