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Re: [PATCH v2] mac80211: Drop the packets whose source or destination mac address is empty

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Ming Chen <ming032217@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> We occasionally found ath9k could receive some packets from Linux IP stack
> with empty source and destination mac address,which will result in the
> driver cannot find the station node in TX complete. And thus, the driver
> will complete this buffer but without updating the block ack window.
>
> To fix this issue, we should drop this kind of error packet before it
> goes into the driver.

The s-o-b line should be here, before the "---" line.

> ---
>
> According to review feedback, use the is_zero_ether_addr to check if the
> mac address is empty.

Very good that you added the changelog, but to make it more obvious you
could, for example, mark the changelog like this:

---

v3:

Fix s-o-b location

v2:

According to review feedback, use the is_zero_ether_addr to check if the
mac address is empty.

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