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if_re: Generate an address if there is none in the EEPROM

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if_re: Generate an address if there is none in the EEPROM

There exists hardware that has no ethernet address burned into
the EEPROM. Loading if_re on such a HW brings the device up
with '00:00:00:00:00:00' as the address, and that doesn't get
you too far in a real network.

PR: 262406
Reviewed by: imp
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/670
Signed-off-by: Evgeni Golov <evgeni@debian.org>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D34485
(cherry picked from commit 55747938b5c4c913f742fd03189f0c660ced7bef)

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Provenance
evgeni_debian.orgAuthored on Feb 27 2023, 10:50 PM
impCommitted on Feb 19 2024, 2:52 AM
Reviewer
imp
Differential Revision
D34485: if_re: generate an address if there is none in the EEPROM
Parents
rG854db1db3f81: run acpi_shutdown_final later to give other handlers a chance
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