From: Duan Andy <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 03:45:48 +0000

> From: Florian Fainelli <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 
> 2015 11:38 AM
>> To: Duan Fugang-B38611; [email protected]
>> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/1] net: fec: add netif status check before
>> set mac address
>> 
>> Le 09/08/15 19:42, Fugang Duan a écrit :
>> > There exist one issue by below case that case system hang:
>> > ifconfig eth0 down
>> > ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:10:19:19:81:19
>> >
>> > After eth0 down, all fec clocks are gated off. In the
>> > .fec_set_mac_address() function, it will set new MAC address to
>> registers, which causes system hang.
>> >
>> > So it needs to add netif status check to avoid registers access when
>> > clocks are gated off. Until eth0 up the new MAC address are wrote into
>> related registers.
>> 
>> Since this is a bug fix, do not you intend to target the "net" tree
>> instead of "net-next"?
>> 
> Thanks for your reminding, it is better to enter net tree.
> 
> David, if you apply it, pls put it into net tree. Thanks.

You need to address the feedback given by Lucas first.
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