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

thanks,

greg k-h