Subject: Re: [PATCH] ssb: pci: Fix flipping of MAC address

From: "John W. Linville" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:18:18 -0400

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 03:38:26PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> Since commit e565275 entitled "ssb: pci: Standardize a function to get mac
> address", the SPROM readout of the MAC has had the values flipped so that
> 00:11:22:33:44:55 became 11:00:33:22:55:44. The fix has been tested on both
> little- and big-endian architectures.
> 
> Reported-by: Rafał Miłecki <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <[email-masked]>
> ---
> 
> John,
> 
> This bug was introduced in 3.9, and should be fixed there.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Larry
> ---
> 
> Index: wireless-testing-new/drivers/ssb/pci.c
> ===================================================================
> --- wireless-testing-new.orig/drivers/ssb/pci.c
> +++ wireless-testing-new/drivers/ssb/pci.c
> @@ -234,8 +234,8 @@ static void sprom_get_mac(char *mac, con
>  {
>  	int i;
>  	for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
> -		*mac++ = in[i];
>  		*mac++ = in[i] >> 8;
> +		*mac++ = in[i];
>  	}
>  }

Actually, FWIW it seems to have been introduced in commit
e5652756ff36ed9e1283121f788e6a17117efcab, which is slated for 3.10.
I'm happy to merge it in wireless-next.

John
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