On Tue, Dec 03, 2024 at 10:04:55PM +0900, Dominique Martinet wrote: > From: Dominique Martinet <dominique.martinet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > The previous commit assumed that local addresses always came from the > kernel, but some devices hand out local mac addresses so we ended up > with point-to-point devices with a mac set by the driver, renaming to > eth%d when they used to be named usb%d. > > Userspace should not rely on device name, but for the sake of stability > restore the local mac address check portion of the naming exception: > point to point devices which either have no mac set by the driver or > have a local mac handed out by the driver will keep the usb%d name. Are you saying the OTP or NVMEM has a locally administered MAC address stored in it? Is there a mechanism to change it? The point about locally administered MAC addresses is that they are locally administered. Andrew
