netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net/eth/ibmveth: Fixup retrieval of MAC address

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Date:	Sun, 05 May 2013 16:58:34 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	benh@...nel.crashing.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	dwg@....ibm.com, bhutchings@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net/eth/ibmveth: Fixup retrieval of MAC address

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Date: Sat, 04 May 2013 13:19:01 +1000

> Some ancient pHyp versions used to create a 8 bytes local-mac-address
> property in the device-tree instead of a 6 bytes one for veth.
> 
> The Linux driver code to deal with that is an insane hack which also
> happens to break with some choices of MAC addresses in qemu by testing
> for a bit in the address rather than just looking at the size of the
> property.
> 
> Sanitize this by doing the latter instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
> CC: <stable@...r.kernel.org>

Applied, thanks.
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