From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753869AbcHRIIj (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2016 04:08:39 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:60840 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752865AbcHRIIa (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Aug 2016 04:08:30 -0400 Message-ID: <1471507385.2157.5.camel@suse.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] cdc_ether: Improve ZTE MF823/831/910 handling From: Oliver Neukum To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn?= Mork Cc: Kristian Evensen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, Network Development Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 10:03:05 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87oa535d10.fsf@miraculix.mork.no> References: <1468844691-8222-1-git-send-email-kristian.evensen@gmail.com> <1468846886.2280.6.camel@suse.com> <1468849802.2280.11.camel@suse.com> <1468851242.2280.14.camel@suse.com> <87y4475t2f.fsf@miraculix.mork.no> <1470664620.3175.18.camel@suse.com> <87oa535d10.fsf@miraculix.mork.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.11 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2016-08-08 at 20:30 +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Note that this doesn't include *every* ethernet driver, although there > certainly are some examples. There are also a number of serious > vendors, providing vendor supported drivers for cards with no known > issues of this kind. > > Where exactly would you like to see this implemented if it isn't going > into those specific usbnet drivers? Higher up. I'd prefer a flag to tell the network core that a driver is unsure about the MAC and the core should deal with it. Regards Oliver