netdev - Re: [PATCH v1 2/4] lib/net_utils: Introduce mac_pton_from

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Date:   Wed, 20 Dec 2017 08:13:55 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
        Florian Schilhabel <florian.c.schilhabel@...glemail.com>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/4] lib/net_utils: Introduce mac_pton_from_user()

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.

thanks,

greg k-h