I assume that a blank efuse comes with all ones, thus I did not bother recognizing other possible junk values. This matches 100% of dongles I've seen (a single Gembird 8192eu). Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@xxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: strncmp("goofy string") -> memchr_inv() Stefano Brivio wrote: > You might want to use memchr_inv(): > > if (memchr_inv(efuse->serial, 0xff, 11)) > dev_info(&priv->udev->dev, "Serial: %.11s\n", efuse->serial); > ... > > Mostly cosmetic though. This looks much better, thanks! drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_8192e.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_8192e.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_8192e.c index 80fee699f58a..38b2ba1ac6f8 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_8192e.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_8192e.c @@ -614,7 +614,10 @@ static int rtl8192eu_parse_efuse(struct rtl8xxxu_priv *priv) dev_info(&priv->udev->dev, "Vendor: %.7s\n", efuse->vendor_name); dev_info(&priv->udev->dev, "Product: %.11s\n", efuse->device_name); - dev_info(&priv->udev->dev, "Serial: %.11s\n", efuse->serial); + if (memchr_inv(efuse->serial, 0xff, 11)) + dev_info(&priv->udev->dev, "Serial: %.11s\n", efuse->serial); + else + dev_info(&priv->udev->dev, "Serial not available.\n"); if (rtl8xxxu_debug & RTL8XXXU_DEBUG_EFUSE) { unsigned char *raw = priv->efuse_wifi.raw; -- 2.14.1