[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 3/3] arm: odroid: usb: add support for usb host including ethernet
Albert ARIBAUD
albert.u.boot at aribaud.net
Tue Oct 28 09:08:16 CET 2014
Hello Przemyslaw,
On Tue, 28 Oct 2014 08:47:47 +0100, Przemyslaw Marczak
<p.marczak at samsung.com> wrote:
> Hello Suriyan Ramasami,
> >> The MAC address is defined by IEEE standard, so we can't use magic numbers
> >> from undefined registers.
> >
> > I am aware of that. In the code by Tushar Behera you will see that he
> > does mark it - "not multicast and outside official 80211 MAC
> > namespace".
> >
>
> Ok, but this is an open source code, and I assume that it should keeps
> some of the standards?
At least the code could and should make sure the Locally Administered
flag is set in the randomly generated MAC -- that would keep the MAC
standard and ensure it won't conflict with universally administered
(iow, 'normal') MAC addresses.
Amicalement,
--
Albert.
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