linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] rename dev_hw_addr_random and remove redundant second

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Message-Id: <20120213.005011.1860393880116915900.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:50:11 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	danny.kukawka@...ect.de
Cc:	dkukawka@...e.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com,
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	eric.dumazet@...il.com, e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] rename dev_hw_addr_random and remove redundant
 second

From: Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka@...ect.de>
Date: Thu,  9 Feb 2012 20:48:54 +0100

> Renamed dev_hw_addr_random to eth_hw_addr_random() to reflect that
> this function only assign a random ethernet address (MAC). Removed
> the second parameter (u8 *hwaddr), it's redundant since the also
> given net_device already contains net_device->dev_addr.
> Set it directly.
> 
> Adapt igbvf and ixgbevf to the changed function.
> 
> Small fix for ixgbevf_probe(): if ixgbevf_sw_init() fails
> (which means the device got no dev_addr) handle the error and
> jump to err_sw_init as already done by igbvf in similar case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka@...ect.de>

Applied.
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