From: Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka@bisect.de>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, ralf@linux-mips.org,
linux-hams@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/12] rose: check given MAC address, if invalid return -EADDRNOTAVAIL
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:25:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201202251925.30283.danny.kukawka@bisect.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120224.154335.577711354132386075.davem@davemloft.net>
On Freitag, 24. Februar 2012, David Miller wrote:
> From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:13:58 +0000
>
> > On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:01:22 +0100
> >
> > Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka@bisect.de> wrote:
> >> Check if given address is valid in .ndo_set_mac_address/
> >> rose_set_mac_address(), if invalid return -EADDRNOTAVAIL as
> >> eth_mac_addr() already does if is_valid_ether_addr() fails.
> >
> > This patch series looks wrong - you cannot go blindly applying ethernet
> > mac address tests to device drivers without checking if they are using
> > 802.11 type addressing at the physical level.
Overseen this aspect ... Sorry. I'll check the patches and send an updated
version.
Do you mean 802.3 ?
Danny
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-25 18:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-24 16:01 [PATCH 00/12] Part 2: " Danny Kukawka
2012-02-24 16:01 ` [PATCH 01/12] ethernet: .ndo_set_mac_address: check given " Danny Kukawka
2012-02-24 16:01 ` [PATCH 02/12] cris/eth_v10: check given MAC " Danny Kukawka
2012-02-25 17:18 ` Jesper Nilsson
2012-02-24 16:01 ` [PATCH 03/12] dvb_net: " Danny Kukawka
2012-02-24 16:01 ` [PATCH 04/12] fddi/skfp: " Danny Kukawka
2012-02-24 16:01 ` [PATCH 05/12] team: " Danny Kukawka
2012-02-26 0:07 ` Jiri Pirko
2012-02-24 16:01 ` [PATCH 06/12] tokenring: " Danny Kukawka
2012-02-24 16:01 ` [PATCH 07/12] usb/rtl8150: " Danny Kukawka
2012-02-24 16:01 ` [PATCH 08/12] vmxnet3: " Danny Kukawka
2012-02-24 16:31 ` [Pv-drivers] " Bhavesh Davda
2012-02-24 16:01 ` [PATCH 09/12] wan/lapbether: " Danny Kukawka
2012-02-24 16:01 ` [PATCH 10/12] wireless: " Danny Kukawka
2012-02-24 16:01 ` [PATCH 11/12] s390/net/qeth_l2_main: " Danny Kukawka
2012-02-24 16:01 ` [PATCH 12/12] rose: " Danny Kukawka
2012-02-24 16:13 ` Alan Cox
2012-02-24 20:43 ` David Miller
2012-02-25 18:25 ` Danny Kukawka [this message]
2012-02-24 17:59 ` [PATCH 00/12] Part 2: " Michał Mirosław
2012-02-25 10:13 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-02-29 7:02 ` Danny Kukawka
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