Re: {painfully BISECTED} Please revert f25c80a4b2: arch/um/drivers:remove duplicate structure field initialization

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Sep 28 2010 - 17:09:29 EST


On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:00 PM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:57:04 -0700
>
>> So perhaps something like the attached patch would make it work, and
>> have the locking in place that apparently people think it should have?
>
> I'm fine with this if it works:
>
> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

And you can add my sign-off to it if somebody tests it.

It does look like the obvious fix. The "wrapper" is simply totally
wrong as-is, and passes the wrong thing entirely to eth_mac_addr()
afaik.

Linus
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