netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 07/10] net/faraday: Read MAC address from chip

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Date:	Tue, 19 Jul 2016 20:57:53 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>,
	"'Gavin Shan'" <gwshan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"joel@....id.au" <joel@....id.au>,
	"gerlitz.or@...il.com" <gerlitz.or@...il.com>,
	"weixue@...stnetic.com" <weixue@...stnetic.com>,
	"yuvali@...lanox.com" <yuvali@...lanox.com>,
	"alexei.starovoitov@...il.com" <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>,
	"f.fainelli@...il.com" <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 07/10] net/faraday: Read MAC address from
 chip

On Tue, 2016-07-19 at 10:50 +0000, David Laight wrote:
> > +     if (!is_valid_ether_addr(mac)) {
> > +             mac[5] = (m >> 8) & 0xff;
> > +             mac[4] = m & 0xff;
> > +             mac[3] = (l >> 24) & 0xff;
> > +             mac[2] = (l >> 16) & 0xff;
> > +             mac[1] = (l >>  8) & 0xff;
> > +             mac[0] = l & 0xff;
> > +     }
> ...
> 
> That is horrid, not all byte reversed addresses will be invalid.

Right, that's just a hack for a broken vendor uboot we had here, Gavin,
drop that part of the patch please.

Cheers,
Ben.