netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: fec: set mac address unconditionally

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Date:   Thu, 22 Sep 2016 08:08:36 +0200
From:   Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
To:     Gavin Schenk <g.schenk@...elmann.de>
Cc:     fugang.duan@....com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...gutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: fec: set mac address unconditionally

Hello,

just a few nitpicks:

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 03:30:55PM +0200, Gavin Schenk wrote:
> Fixes: 9638d19e4816 ("net: fec: add netif status check before set mac address")

This line belongs to in the S-o-B area below.

> If the mac address origin is not dt, you can only safe assign a

s/safe/safely/

> mac address after "link up" of the device. If the link is down the
> clocks are disabled and because of issues assigning registers when
> clocks are down the new mac address is discarded on some soc's. This fix

s/down/off/; s/is discarded/cannot be written in .ndo_set_mac_address()/

> sets the mac address unconditionally in fec_restart(...) and ensures
> consistens between fec registers and the network layer.

s/consistens/consistency/

Other than that:

Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...elmann.de>

Thanks
Uwe

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