Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 3 authors, 2014-05-31

Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: tilegx: Use helpers from linux/etherdevice.h to check/set MAC

From: Chris Metcalf <hidden>
Date: 2014-05-28 19:43:34

On 5/27/2014 8:04 AM, Tobias Klauser wrote:
Use is_valid_ether_addr() to check for a valid MAC address to set on the
device.  This will also check for the device address being multicast,
which would have been possible previously.
I don't think having a multicast address here is possible (i.e. as returned
by gxio_mpipe_link_enumerate_mac), and it confuses the actual issue, which
is handling the all-zeroes case in a simulator run.  I'd prefer to see
is_zero_ether_addr() instead.
Also use ether_addr_copy() instead of a manual memcpy() to set the
address.

Furthermore, get rid of a redundant assignment of dev->addr_len. This is
already set by ether_setup() which is called in tile_net_setup().

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
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  drivers/net/ethernet/tile/tilegx.c |   17 ++++++-----------
  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
With the change above,

Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <redacted>

-- 
Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp.
http://www.tilera.com
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