Re: [PATCH 0/2] net: spider_net: fix possible bitops errors

[David Miller]

From: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri,  3 Oct 2014 17:01:53 +0200

> Dan reported a possible signedness issue on the pxa168_eth driver. While
> having a look at it, I came across a similar problem in the spider_net
> driver.
> 
> Here is one proposal to fix it. The first patch rework the
> spider_net_set_mac() function by removing the spider_net_get_mac_address()
> call and using memcpy() to set netdev->dev_addr (which is what's done in
> lots of Ethernet drivers) and the second one fix the actual signedness
> issue.
> 
> If for any reason you really want to keep a call to
> spider_net_get_mac_address() because the memcpy() is somehow not good
> enough here, we can also come up with a solution involving a temporary
> unsigned char variable.

Series applied, thanks.
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