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From: Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez <jtornosm@redhat.com>
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Cc: Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez <jtornosm@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v3] net: usb: ax88179_178a: non necessary second random mac address
Date: Mon,  1 Apr 2024 10:27:25 +0200
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If the mac address can not be read from the device registers or the
devicetree, a random address is generated, but this was already done from
usbnet_probe, so it is not necessary to call eth_hw_addr_random from here
again to generate another random address.

Indeed, when reset was also executed from bind, generate another random mac
address invalidated the check from usbnet_probe to configure if the assigned
mac address for the interface was random or not, because it is comparing
with the initial generated random address. Now, with only a reset from open
operation, it is just a harmless simplification.

Signed-off-by: Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez <jtornosm@redhat.com>
---
v3:
  - Send the patch separately to net-next and remove fixes and stable tags.
v2:
  - Split the fix and the improvement in two patches and keep curly-brackets
as Simon Horman suggests.
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20240325173155.671807-1-jtornosm@redhat.com/

 drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c b/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c
index 8ca8ace93d9c..08c9b2ab9711 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c
@@ -1276,7 +1276,6 @@ static void ax88179_get_mac_addr(struct usbnet *dev)
 		dev->net->addr_assign_type = NET_ADDR_PERM;
 	} else {
 		netdev_info(dev->net, "invalid MAC address, using random\n");
-		eth_hw_addr_random(dev->net);
 	}
 
 	ax88179_write_cmd(dev, AX_ACCESS_MAC, AX_NODE_ID, ETH_ALEN, ETH_ALEN,
-- 
2.44.0