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mvneta: remove double validation of mac address

Message ID 1383081906-12342-1-git-send-email-laurent.navet@gmail.com
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Laurent Navet Oct. 29, 2013, 9:25 p.m. UTC
Mac address validity is already checked in of_get_mac_address().
No need to do it twice.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Navet <laurent.navet@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Thomas Petazzoni Oct. 29, 2013, 11:35 p.m. UTC | #1
Dear Laurent Navet,

On Tue, 29 Oct 2013 22:25:06 +0100, Laurent Navet wrote:
> Mac address validity is already checked in of_get_mac_address().
> No need to do it twice.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Navet <laurent.navet@gmail.com>

Thanks, but an identical patch has been posted by Luka Perkov
<luka@openwrt.org> just a few days ago. See
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg255454.html.

Thanks,

Thomas
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
index e35bac7..7d99e695 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
@@ -2811,7 +2811,7 @@  static int mvneta_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	}
 
 	dt_mac_addr = of_get_mac_address(dn);
-	if (dt_mac_addr && is_valid_ether_addr(dt_mac_addr)) {
+	if (dt_mac_addr) {
 		mac_from = "device tree";
 		memcpy(dev->dev_addr, dt_mac_addr, ETH_ALEN);
 	} else {