[PATCH v1 2/4] lib/net_utils: Introduce mac_pton_from_user()
Greg Kroah-Hartman
gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Wed Dec 20 07:13:55 UTC 2017
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 at 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
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