From: Anant Thazhemadam <anant.thazhemadam@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 17:04:13 +0530 > But this patch is about ensuring that an uninitialized variable's > value (whatever that may be) is not set as the ethernet address > blindly (without any form of checking if get_registers() worked > as expected, or not). Right, and if you are going to check for errors then you have to handle the error properly. And the proper way to handle this error is to set a random ethernet address on the device.
