Re: [PATCH 2/2] rename dev_hw_addr_random and remove redundantsecond

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Feb 13 2012 - 00:50:29 EST


From: Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 20:48:54 +0100

> Renamed dev_hw_addr_random to eth_hw_addr_random() to reflect that
> this function only assign a random ethernet address (MAC). Removed
> the second parameter (u8 *hwaddr), it's redundant since the also
> given net_device already contains net_device->dev_addr.
> Set it directly.
>
> Adapt igbvf and ixgbevf to the changed function.
>
> Small fix for ixgbevf_probe(): if ixgbevf_sw_init() fails
> (which means the device got no dev_addr) handle the error and
> jump to err_sw_init as already done by igbvf in similar case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied.
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