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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 17:31:07 +0100
From: Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez <jtornosm@...hat.com>
To: horms@...nel.org
Cc: dave.stevenson@...pberrypi.com,
	davem@...emloft.net,
	edumazet@...gle.com,
	jtornosm@...hat.com,
	kuba@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	pabeni@...hat.com,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] net: usb: ax88179_178a: non necessary second random mac address

If the mac address can not be read from the device registers or the
devicetree, a random address is generated, but this was already done from
usbnet_probe, so it is not necessary to call eth_hw_addr_random from here
again to generate another random address.

Indeed, when reset was also executed from bind, generate another random mac
address invalidated the check from usbnet_probe to configure if the assigned
mac address for the interface was random or not, because it is comparing
with the initial generated random address. Now, with only a reset from open
operation, it is just a harmless simplification.

cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # 6.6+
Fixes: 9fb137aef34e ("net: usb: ax88179_178a: allow optionally getting mac address from device tree")
Signed-off-by: Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez <jtornosm@...hat.com>
---
V1 -> V2:
- Split the fix and the improvement in two patches and keep curly-brackets
as Simon Horman suggests.

 drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c b/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c
index 8ca8ace93d9c..08c9b2ab9711 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c
@@ -1276,7 +1276,6 @@ static void ax88179_get_mac_addr(struct usbnet *dev)
 		dev->net->addr_assign_type = NET_ADDR_PERM;
 	} else {
 		netdev_info(dev->net, "invalid MAC address, using random\n");
-		eth_hw_addr_random(dev->net);
 	}
 
 	ax88179_write_cmd(dev, AX_ACCESS_MAC, AX_NODE_ID, ETH_ALEN, ETH_ALEN,
-- 
2.44.0


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