From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
davej@redhat.com, auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com, ajax@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000, e1000e valid-addr fixes
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:15:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071024011535.GZ30533@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <471E9801.2000006@garzik.org>
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 08:55:29PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Actually, looking over the code I see obvious bugs in the logic:
>
> An invalid ethernet address should not cause device loading to fail,
> because the user is given the opportunity to supply a MAC address via
> userspace (ifconfig or whatever) before the interface goes up.
>
> I just created the attached -bug fix- patch as illustration, though I have
> not committed it, waiting for comment.
>...
Is there a good reason why we have such checks duplicated in the drivers
(with every driver doing it differently...) instead of doing it in
net/core/dev.c?
> Jeff
cu
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-24 1:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-23 14:58 [PATCH] Add eeprom_bad_csum_allow module option to e1000 Adam Jackson
2007-10-23 16:18 ` Kok, Auke
2007-10-23 16:21 ` Adam Jackson
2007-10-23 17:09 ` Kok, Auke
2007-10-23 20:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-23 21:01 ` Kok, Auke
2007-10-23 21:51 ` David Miller
2007-10-23 21:20 ` Dave Jones
2007-10-23 21:38 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-23 21:53 ` David Miller
2007-10-23 23:19 ` Kok, Auke
2007-10-24 0:55 ` [PATCH] e1000, e1000e valid-addr fixes Jeff Garzik
2007-10-24 1:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-24 1:07 ` David Miller
2007-10-24 2:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-24 2:23 ` David Miller
2007-11-01 18:04 ` Kok, Auke
2007-11-01 18:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-11-01 18:11 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-11-01 19:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-24 1:15 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2007-10-23 23:03 ` [PATCH] Add eeprom_bad_csum_allow module option to e1000 Kok, Auke
2007-10-23 23:03 ` Kok, Auke
2007-10-23 23:53 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-24 5:38 ` Dave Jones
2007-10-23 21:48 ` David Miller
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