linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/12] Part 2: check given MAC address, if invalid return -EADDRNOTAVAIL

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Date:	Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:13:21 +0100
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Michał Mirosław <mirqus@...il.com>
Cc:	Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka@...ect.de>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>,
	Guo-Fu Tseng <cooldavid@...ldavid.org>,
	Petko Manolov <petkan@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	"VMware, Inc." <pv-drivers@...are.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>, linux390@...ibm.com,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
	Danny Kukawka <dkukawka@...e.de>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
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	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] Part 2: check given MAC address, if invalid return -EADDRNOTAVAIL

2012/2/24 Michał Mirosław <mirqus@...il.com>:
> 2012/2/24 Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka@...ect.de>:
>> Second Part of series patches to unifiy the return value of
>> .ndo_set_mac_address if the given address isn't valid.
>>
>> These changes check if a given (MAC) address is valid in
>> .ndo_set_mac_address, if invalid return -EADDRNOTAVAIL
>> as eth_mac_addr() already does if is_valid_ether_addr() fails.
>
> Why not just fix dev_set_mac_address() and make do_setlink() use that?

BTW, it's also called from dev_set_mac_address().

> Checks are specific to address family, not device model I assume.

Indeed, why can't this be done in one single place, instead of sprinkling these
checks over all drivers, missing all out-of-tree (note: I don't care) and all
soon-to-be-submitted drivers?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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