Re: drivers/net/sunhme.c patch

[David Miller]

From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:12:25 +0100 (CET)

> The question was more like: if I put in a QFE (that was acquired together
> with a SUN E250) into x86, would I get duplicate MACs? (Would be strange -
> I would have supposed the OF on the card is independent.)

You are not supposed to.  Each HME instance should get a unique
MAC.

Normally OF would propagate this information around to the independant
device nodes, and we should try to preserve this behavior for non-OF
systems.
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