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Re: [PATCH] ssb: fix unaligned access to mac address

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2013/3/10 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 03/10/2013 06:36 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>>
>>
>> Feel free to fix. I've another 3 regressions to track...
>
>
> Upon further investigation, the flipping of the MAC bytes was not due to
> "ssb: pci: Standardize a function to get mac address", or "ssb: fix
> unaligned access to mac address". For other reasons, I had to run 3.8 today
> and found the flipping, even though neither patch was installed. Joe and
> Hauke are blameless - they merely reproduced the existing bug. I have no
> real desire to find out when that error was introduced as I am not an
> archeologist. Note that b43legacy does not have the problem, thus it was
> introduced after the split of those two variants.

It's not about blaming anyone, just finish the bug :)

Reverting e5652756ff36ed9e1283121f788e6a17117efcab which is "ssb: pci:
Standardize a function to get mac address" fixes the MAC address issue
for me.

I'm reverting on top of c49141682cfa9713e67f515cc7faf6145720ec3d.

-- 
Rafał
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