> > There any side effects with the following patch? > > Not for you. But if it got changed now, it would surprise the > existing users (change in ABI behaviour). > > So if you need a particular mac address, you can set it with > other tools (ip or ifconfig). You are right, I can set the Hw address with ifconfig - but any 'brctl addif' later resets the address, so that is simply not usable. - Dietmar _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge