net/eth/ibmveth: Fixup retrieval of MAC address
authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Fri, 3 May 2013 17:19:01 +0000 (17:19 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 11 May 2013 20:53:51 +0000 (13:53 -0700)
commitf20d7b5787463886691a0946cc5b56153538df47
tree9f13f64d5e42efe379580b3b036517d268cbf825
parentd474ea53485a4a81699f503c8234610af7fb8c3c
net/eth/ibmveth: Fixup retrieval of MAC address

commit 13f85203e1060da83d9ec1c1c5a63343eaab8de4 upstream.

Some ancient pHyp versions used to create a 8 bytes local-mac-address
property in the device-tree instead of a 6 bytes one for veth.

The Linux driver code to deal with that is an insane hack which also
happens to break with some choices of MAC addresses in qemu by testing
for a bit in the address rather than just looking at the size of the
property.

Sanitize this by doing the latter instead.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c