ax88179_178a: fix bonding failure
The following patch fixes a bug which causes the ax88179_178a driver to be incapable of being added to a bond. When I brought up the issue with the bonding maintainers, they indicated that the real problem was with the NIC driver which must return zero for success (of setting the MAC address). I see that several other NIC drivers follow that pattern by either simply always returing zero, or by passing through a negative (error) result while rewriting any positive return code to zero. With that same philisophy applied to the ax88179_178a driver, it allows it to work correctly with the bonding driver. I believe this is suitable for queuing in -stable, as it's a small, simple, and obvious fix that corrects a defect with no other known workaround. This patch is against vanilla 3.17(.0). Signed-off-by:Ian Morgan <imorgan@primordial.ca> drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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