Re: [PATCH] dummy -- support hardware address

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephen, why don't you do what usbnet does?  Look at usbnet_init()
where it goes:

        get_random_bytes (node_id, sizeof node_id);
        node_id [0] &= 0xfe;    // clear multicast bit
        node_id [0] |= 0x02;    // set local assignment bit (IEEE802)

I distinctly remember Alan Cox saying this was the right way
do this and avoid conflicts with Vendor assigned IDs.