From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-ob0-f178.google.com ([209.85.214.178]:40515 "EHLO mail-ob0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751906Ab3CJU5e convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Mar 2013 16:57:34 -0400 Received: by mail-ob0-f178.google.com with SMTP id wd20so2722021obb.37 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2013 13:57:33 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <513CC45E.7090402@lwfinger.net> References: <1361021140-19871-1-git-send-email-hauke@hauke-m.de> <1361381489.3065.1.camel@joe-AO722> <51250E6B.3030308@lwfinger.net> <1361384969.2219.4.camel@joe-AO722> <51252132.3050603@hauke-m.de> <1361391065.2223.5.camel@joe-AO722> <512595BC.5030607@lwfinger.net> <513BCC20.70900@lwfinger.net> <513CC45E.7090402@lwfinger.net> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:57:32 +0100 Message-ID: (sfid-20130310_215739_057917_3D4F586E) Subject: Re: [PATCH] ssb: fix unaligned access to mac address From: =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= To: Larry Finger Cc: Joe Perches , Hauke Mehrtens , linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 2013/3/10 Larry Finger : > On 03/10/2013 06:36 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: >> >> >> Feel free to fix. I've another 3 regressions to track... > > > Upon further investigation, the flipping of the MAC bytes was not due to > "ssb: pci: Standardize a function to get mac address", or "ssb: fix > unaligned access to mac address". For other reasons, I had to run 3.8 today > and found the flipping, even though neither patch was installed. Joe and > Hauke are blameless - they merely reproduced the existing bug. I have no > real desire to find out when that error was introduced as I am not an > archeologist. Note that b43legacy does not have the problem, thus it was > introduced after the split of those two variants. It's not about blaming anyone, just finish the bug :) Reverting e5652756ff36ed9e1283121f788e6a17117efcab which is "ssb: pci: Standardize a function to get mac address" fixes the MAC address issue for me. I'm reverting on top of c49141682cfa9713e67f515cc7faf6145720ec3d. -- Rafał