On Thursday 24 March 2011, Andy Green wrote:
> This patch registers a network device notifier callback to set the mac
> addresses for the onboard network assets of Panda correctly, despite the
> drivers involved have used a random or all-zeros MAC address.
> 
> The technique was suggested by Alan Cox on lkml.
> 
> It works by device path so it corrects the MAC addresses even if the
> drivers are in modules loaded in an order that changes their interface
> name from usual (eg, the onboard module might be "wlan1" if there is a
> USB wireless stick plugged in and its module is inserted first.)
> 
> Cc: Alan Cox <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Green <[email protected]>

It looks like this is the best solution so far.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
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