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> In any case the question is moot. I may want to use a pIII serial number
> when a mac address is likely to change and I still want to have a enterprise-
> wide installation/upgrade system (and assuming of course that all machines
> in that network support PSN). The kernel should never dictate policy. If
> someone wants to hang himself in the opinion of someone else, it should
> let him.
The MAC address is just somewhat more likely to change as the PSN, so your
reasoning is faulty. And the MAC is useful outside the machine (DHCP and
such), which the PSN is not.
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