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From: andrew@lunn.ch (Andrew Lunn)
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:01:47 +0100
Subject: [v2,1/1] ARM: orion5x: use mac_pton() helper
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> > The patch has been corrupted by you email client. But otherwise, yes.
> > 
> > Please take a look at:
> > 
> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.12/process/submitting-patches.html
> > 
> > It will give you hits about correctly formatting the patch. In
> > addition it should have:
> > 
> > Fixes: 4cd5773a2ae6 ("net: core: move mac_pton() to lib/net_utils.c")
> > 
> > before the --- line, to indicate what it is fixing.
> > 
> > This patch should be against
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git,
> > since it is a fix, and sent to <netdev@vger.kernel.org>.
> 
> Guys, consider this one instead:
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/851008/

Hi Andy

Thanks for pointing this patch out.

What is the advantage of doing to the strnlen()? As Stefan says, the
code which follows will detect a short string, in that a NULL is not
in [0-9a-f], nor a : .

Thanks
	Andrew