On 2020/09/13 13:23, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 11:31:12AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > On 2020/09/13 11:12, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > > This has been tried before, I forget what but there were problems
> > 
> > from chat logs when I tried this before:
> > 
> > 14:52 < sthen> if i kill the if_down, no crash, but the mac address doesn't 
> > get updated so i end up with the same one on em0, em1, trunk0
> Thanks for mentioning it, I'll look into whether I can fix this or we
> have revert my commit to avoid breakage around MAC addresses.
> 
> I'd expect such information to be present in CVS log or code (comments).
> 

It's not in CVS log because it was tested and didn't work so wasn't
committed. I don't know if there's precedent for documenting everything
somebody might try but fails in a code comment, feels like the tree
would be littered with possibly outdated comments if that's done
regularly?

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