Re: [PATCH] smsc75xx: only set mac address once on bind

From: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@shawell.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:01:19 +0000

This patch changes when we decide what the device's MAC address
is from per ifconfig up to once when the device is connected.

Without this patch, a manually forced device MAC is overwritten
on ifconfig down/up.  Also devices that have no EEPROM are
assigned a new random address on ifconfig down/up instead of
persisting the same one.

Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@shawell.net>
Reported-by: Robert Cunningham <redacted>

Applied.