Re: [PATCH] pch_gbe: Use a randomly generated MAC instead of failing probe

From: Darren Hart <redacted>
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:54:27 -0800

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Please correct any hardware that hasn't shipped yet or is alpha/beta
hardware in testing, so that we don't need stuff like this.

I saw that the use of random_ether_addr is fairly prevalent, and
attempted a roughly similar sort of approach to others I had seen. Do
you consider all of those to be "necessary evils" or are there
legitimate situations for its use?

In any case, with existing hardware out there that is unusable with the
current pch_gbe driver, can we consider this workaround for inclusion?

I fear that people are just going to add this random MAC stuff way too
easily, it's a spreading disease.

Ship functional hardware instead.