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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/4] lib/net_utils: Introduce mac_pton_from_user()
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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 08:13:55 +0100

> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 09:14:10PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> Some drivers are getting MAC from user space. Make a helper for them.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
>> ---
>>  include/linux/kernel.h |  1 +
>>  lib/net_utils.c        | 12 ++++++++++++
>>  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
> 
> Don't do this just for some horrid staging drivers.  They can just drop
> that functionality entirely and use the "normal" way of doing this if
> they really want it.

Agreed.