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[PATCH net-next] w5100: using eth_hw_addr_random() for random MAC and set device flag

From: Wei Yongjun <hidden>
Date: 2012-08-23 07:28:20
Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Wei Yongjun <redacted>

Using eth_hw_addr_random() to generate a random Ethernet address
(MAC) to be used by a net device and set addr_assign_type.
Not need to duplicating its implementation.

spatch with a semantic match is used to found this problem.
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/wiznet/w5100.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/wiznet/w5100.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/wiznet/w5100.c
index a5826a3..2c08bf6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/wiznet/w5100.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/wiznet/w5100.c
@@ -637,8 +637,7 @@ static int __devinit w5100_hw_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	if (data && is_valid_ether_addr(data->mac_addr)) {
 		memcpy(ndev->dev_addr, data->mac_addr, ETH_ALEN);
 	} else {
-		eth_random_addr(ndev->dev_addr);
-		ndev->addr_assign_type |= NET_ADDR_RANDOM;
+		eth_hw_addr_random(ndev);
 	}
 
 	mem = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
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