Re: [PATCH 2.6] dev.c: clear SIOCGIFHWADDR buffer if !dev->addr

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Re: [PATCH 2.6] dev.c: clear SIOCGIFHWADDR buffer if !dev->addr_len

from [jamal]

To:	Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@xxxxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: [PATCH 2.6] dev.c: clear SIOCGIFHWADDR buffer if !dev->addr_len
From:	jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	01 Nov 2004 16:50:49 -0500
Cc:	Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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My onluy comment is on use of -EOVERFLOW which i have seen only
being used in the context of floating point computation
(same as -EUNDERFLOW). I dont know what the right thing to return would
be.

cheers,
jamal

On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 15:45, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 07:41:31AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > You don't need the min anymore since you've checked that dev->addr_len
> > is not greater than sizeof ifr->ifr_hwaddr.sa_data.
> 
> Good catch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@xxxxxxxx>

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