Re: [PATCH] net: core: move mac_pton() to lib/net_utils.c

David Miller
2013-06-05T08:44:06Z

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 10:41:45 +0200

> On Tuesday 04 June 2013 17:43:23 David Miller wrote:
>> From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 19:46:26 +0300
>>
>> > Since we have at least one user of this function outside of CONFIG_NET
>> > scope, we have to provide this function independently. The proposed
>> > solution is to move it under lib/net_utils.c with corresponding
>> > configuration variable and select wherever it is needed.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
>> > Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>>
>> I do not see a mac_pton() usage under drivers/misc in any of my trees,
>> so I really am not the person to apply this.
>
> Greg merged the Andy's patch that added the usage in the char-misc tree,
> which broke yesterday's linux-next for some 'randconfig' builds.
>
> Can you provide an Ack for Greg to apply the patch to his tree?

Sure:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>