Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761314Ab0GUSuJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:50:09 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:37865 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752774Ab0GUSuH (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:50:07 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:50:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20100721.115023.69942880.davem@davemloft.net> To: gregory.v.rose@intel.com Cc: leedom@chelsio.com, shemminger@vyatta.com, andy@greyhouse.net, harald@redhat.com, bhutchings@solarflare.com, sassmann@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com, alexander.h.duyck@intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] sysfs: add entry to indicate network interfaces with random MAC address From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20100721.114851.200597269.davem@davemloft.net> References: <201007211129.48288.leedom@chelsio.com> <43F901BD926A4E43B106BF17856F0755F184620A@orsmsx508.amr.corp.intel.com> <20100721.114851.200597269.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 560 Lines: 13 From: David Miller Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:48:51 -0700 (PDT) > You could do things like have the PF controller use the root filesystem > ID label to construct the VF's MAC address, or something like that. And here I of course mean the root filesystem of the guest the VF will be given to. -- 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/