# Re: \[PATCH\] r8169: Randomise invalid MAC addresses

- From: Torne (Richard Coles) \<hidden\>
- Date: 2012-01-24 13:30:00 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2012/01/3813026
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2012/01/3812401/t.md

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On 23 January 2012 21:43, Alan Cox [ref] wrote:
>> So, is this just not going to be acceptable in any form? What about
>> refactoring the existing drivers that do this so that this code
>> doesn't need to be repeated in every driver, if that would help? I'd
>> really quite like to get standard linux distros to be compatible with
>> the Joggler, and this is one of the few changes that's actually needed
>> (one way or another).
>
> It ought to be about a ten line change in Red Hat/Fedora, you could also
> do it generically for most distributions as a udev rule.

OK; I'll work on that instead. Thanks for the feedback all.

-- 
Torne (Richard Coles)
torne@google.com
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