Copying the dummy HW address into the struct net_device doesn't need to be done byte by byte; use ether_addr_copy() instead. Additionally, dev->dev_addr is not eight bytes long. ether_setup() sets the dev->addr_len to ETH_ALEN (defined as 6) in the net core code. Signed-off-by: Quytelda Kahja <quytelda@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c | 10 +--------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c index 6106e79c5163..f6e496aa68de 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c +++ b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c @@ -2900,15 +2900,7 @@ int ks_wlan_net_start(struct net_device *dev) timer_setup(&update_phyinfo_timer, ks_wlan_update_phyinfo_timeout, 0); /* dummy address set */ - memcpy(priv->eth_addr, dummy_addr, ETH_ALEN); - dev->dev_addr[0] = priv->eth_addr[0]; - dev->dev_addr[1] = priv->eth_addr[1]; - dev->dev_addr[2] = priv->eth_addr[2]; - dev->dev_addr[3] = priv->eth_addr[3]; - dev->dev_addr[4] = priv->eth_addr[4]; - dev->dev_addr[5] = priv->eth_addr[5]; - dev->dev_addr[6] = 0x00; - dev->dev_addr[7] = 0x00; + ether_addr_copy(dev->dev_addr, priv->eth_addr); /* The ks_wlan-specific entries in the device structure. */ dev->netdev_ops = &ks_wlan_netdev_ops; -- 2.16.3 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel