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  1. Bug #153727
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 153727

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Dave Hall (skwashd) wrote : Re: Ethernet device's number increases by one after every reboot

I don't think this will be fixed. If the MAC address is invalid, what is the driver to do? Other things can break if the kernel driver accepts the invalid data.

I have blogged about my experience and hack for it at http://davehall.com.au/blog/dave/2008/02/10/flakey-bios-gigabyte-ga-m68sm-s2l-makes-mac-address-change-reboot

I think that this really should be marked as a "kernel bug", as it is the kernel driver doing this, not udev. If only launchpad allowed you to file hardware bugs and they were sent to the appropriate vendor ...