[PATCH] defconfig: espressobin: enable NET_RANDOM_ETHADDR

Marek Behun marek.behun at nic.cz
Mon Sep 21 15:21:44 CEST 2020


On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 15:05:22 +0200
Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org> wrote:

> Moreover CONFIG_NET_RANDOM_ETHADDR introduce another issue. In case
> there is no valid mac address, U-Boot generates one. But it does not
> pass this generates mac address to kernel and therefore kernel generates
> another new random mac address.

I think it does :) At least on A3720, if the net controller has MAC
address set by U-Boot, I think the same one will be used by kernel.

Marek


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