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Date:   Wed, 20 Dec 2017 10:51:21 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Larry.Finger@...inger.net, florian.c.schilhabel@...glemail.com,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/4] lib/net_utils: Introduce mac_pton_from_user()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 08:13:55 +0100

> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 09:14:10PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> Some drivers are getting MAC from user space. Make a helper for them.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
>> ---
>>  include/linux/kernel.h |  1 +
>>  lib/net_utils.c        | 12 ++++++++++++
>>  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
> 
> Don't do this just for some horrid staging drivers.  They can just drop
> that functionality entirely and use the "normal" way of doing this if
> they really want it.

Agreed.