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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RTNL]: Validate hardware and broadcast address attribute for
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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:33:26 +0100

> Thomas Graf wrote:
> > The reason I did it this way is to keep validate_linkmsg() generic
> > and make it possible to put validation code which must also apply
> > to new links (dev==NULL) into that function.
> 
> OK, thanks for the explanation.

Patch applied, thanks.