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Dominique Martinet
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commit8a7d12d674("net: usb: usbnet: fix name regression") assumed that local addresses always came from the kernel, but some devices hand out local mac addresses so we ended up with point-to-point devices with a mac set by the driver, renaming to eth%d when they used to be named usb%d. Userspace should not rely on device name, but for the sake of stability restore the local mac address check portion of the naming exception: point to point devices which either have no mac set by the driver or have a local mac handed out by the driver will keep the usb%d name. (some USB LTE modems are known to hand out a stable mac from the locally administered range; that mac appears to be random (different for mulitple devices) and can be reset with device-specific commands, so while such devices would benefit from getting a OUI reserved, we have to deal with these and might as well preserve the existing behavior to avoid breaking fragile openwrt configurations and such on upgrade.) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241203130457.904325-1-asmadeus@codewreck.org Fixes:8a7d12d674("net: usb: usbnet: fix name regression") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Tested-by: Ahmed Naseef <naseefkm@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <dominique.martinet@atmark-techno.com> Acked-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250326-usbnet_rename-v2-1-57eb21fcff26@atmark-techno.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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