[PATCH 03/10] net/fec: add mac field into platform data and consolidate fec_get_mac

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Wed Dec 29 05:31:38 EST 2010


Hello Shawn,

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 06:05:21PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 08:53:30AM +0200, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > Hi Shawn,
> > In the case of dual MAC that you later add support for, the address which one 
> > is being set? Is there a way to set both in kernel command line?
> > 
> The fec0 gets fec_mac and fec1 gets fec_mac + 1. The following code
> in function fec_get_mac takes care of it.
> 
> 	/* Adjust MAC if using default MAC address */
default MAC address means the address passed via cmdline?  Sounds
confusing to me.

> 	if (iap == fec_mac_default)
> 		dev->dev_addr[ETH_ALEN-1] = fec_mac_default[ETH_ALEN-1] + fep->pdev->id;
Can this overflow?  (I didn't check the code, so my concern might be
completely stupid here.)

Best regards
Uwe

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