On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 09:46:29AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
Also, this really feels like a "new feature" to me. Can someone explain what bug this is fixing?
Reading the commit log/code it seems that it was possible for 2 (or more) synthetic devices to have the same MAC address even though the current code treats them as unique and uses it as a lookup index. Let me confirm with Stephen. This came through the regular AUTOSEL process and I don't really know more about this patch than you do at this point. -- Thanks, Sasha
