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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka@bisect.de>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>,
	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>,
	Bob Liu <bob.liu@analog.com>,
	uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] adi: adapt to eth_hw_addr_random() and changes in arch/blackfin
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:27:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1329521263.584.50.camel@joe2Laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201202171815.59846.vapier@gentoo.org>

On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 18:15 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 17 February 2012 05:57:54 Danny Kukawka wrote:
> > Maybe. Many drivers already print information about setting a random mac
> > address to a netdevice. Some with printk, some via
> > netdev_warn/netdev_info/netdev_dbg or netif_dbg and other with costum
> > methods. I could unify this, in a next step with a netdev_info in
> > eth_hw_addr_random(), if it's okay for David.
> i think unification in the core makes sense.  it enforces consistency and 
> removes duplication.

It's a good idea.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-17 23:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-16 17:09 [PATCH v2 0/2] Part 3: handle random addresses on blackfin Danny Kukawka
2012-02-16 17:09 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] arch/blackfin: don't generate random mac in bfin_get_ether_addr() Danny Kukawka
2012-02-17  4:38   ` Mike Frysinger
2012-02-20  0:05     ` David Miller
2012-02-16 17:09 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] adi: adapt to eth_hw_addr_random() and changes in arch/blackfin Danny Kukawka
2012-02-17  4:37   ` Mike Frysinger
2012-02-17 10:57     ` Danny Kukawka
2012-02-17 23:15       ` Mike Frysinger
2012-02-17 23:27         ` Joe Perches [this message]
2012-02-18 13:28           ` Danny Kukawka
2012-02-19  2:47             ` Mike Frysinger
2012-02-20  0:05       ` David Miller
2012-02-20  0:05   ` David Miller

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