Am Donnerstag, 9. Februar 2012, 07:57:42 schrieb Bjørn Mork: > > Don't you set the flag too early here? By that time we don't know > > whether the device provides a real MAC, do we? > > Maybe it makes sense to set it here anyway since usbnet provides this > default random address, and let the minidrivers which set a real mac > also clear the flag? But in that case the patch need to clear the flag > everywhere a minidriver currently updates the address. > Doable, but where is the benefit? It seems better to me to make an effort to guess as well as possible in the common code. Regards Oliver -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html