Dan Carpenter           dan.carpenter@oracle.com
 Dan Wendlandt           dan@nicira.com
 Daniel Roman            droman@nicira.com
+Danny Kukawka           danny.kukawka@bisect.de
 David Erickson          derickso@stanford.edu
 Devendra Naga           devendra.aaru@gmail.com
 Dominic Curran          dominic.curran@citrix.com
 
        linux/compat/include/linux/cpumask.h \
        linux/compat/include/linux/dmi.h \
        linux/compat/include/linux/err.h \
+       linux/compat/include/linux/etherdevice.h \
        linux/compat/include/linux/flex_array.h \
        linux/compat/include/linux/genetlink.h \
        linux/compat/include/linux/icmp.h \
 
--- /dev/null
+#ifndef __LINUX_ETHERDEVICE_WRAPPER_H
+#define __LINUX_ETHERDEVICE_WRAPPER_H 1
+
+#include_next <linux/etherdevice.h>
+#include <linux/version.h>
+
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,36)
+static inline void eth_hw_addr_random(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+       random_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr);
+}
+#elif LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3,3,0)
+static inline void eth_hw_addr_random(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+       dev_hw_addr_random(dev, dev->dev_addr);
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif
 
 
        if (!is_valid_ether_addr(addr->sa_data))
                return -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
+#ifdef NET_ADDR_RANDOM
+       dev->addr_assign_type &= ~NET_ADDR_RANDOM;
+#endif
        memcpy(dev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data, dev->addr_len);
        return 0;
 }
 #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,39)
        netdev->hw_features = netdev->features & ~NETIF_F_LLTX;
 #endif
-       random_ether_addr(netdev->dev_addr);
+       eth_hw_addr_random(netdev);
 }
 
 static struct vport *internal_dev_create(const struct vport_parms *parms)