Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761248Ab0GTMNS (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:13:18 -0400 Received: from ixro-out-rtc.ixiacom.com ([92.87.192.98]:4298 "EHLO ixro-ex1.ixiacom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757324Ab0GTMNP (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:13:15 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 915 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:13:15 EDT Message-ID: <4C458F50.4070200@ixiacom.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:58:08 +0300 From: Alex Badea User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100228 Thunderbird/2.0.0.24 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stefan Assmann CC: Ben Hutchings , netdev , Linux Kernel Mailing List , davem@davemloft.net, Andy Gospodarek , "Rose, Gregory V" , "Duyck, Alexander H" , Casey Leedom , Harald Hoyer Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] sysfs: add entry to indicate network interfaces with random MAC address References: <4C457F72.8090708@redhat.com> <1279624844.2110.3.camel@achroite.uk.solarflarecom.com> <4C458CB7.3030508@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4C458CB7.3030508@redhat.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Jul 2010 11:57:59.0351 (UTC) FILETIME=[CC574C70:01CB2802] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 524 Lines: 15 Hi, On 07/20/2010 02:47 PM, Stefan Assmann wrote: >> What about devices that 'steal' MAC addresses from slave devices? Might I suggest an attribute such as "address_type", which could report "permanent", "random", "stolen", or something else in the future? My two cents, Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/