On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 05:19:23PM -0800, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
> From: Maciej Żenczykowski <m...@google.com>
> 
> prior to fetching it from kernel.
> 
> Otherwise we run the risk of very tail portion of it (dmac field)
> being left entirely uninitialized, and likely containing some sort
> of stale data.
> 
> It seems to likely be some sort of time (a second's counter).
> 
> Tested:
>   'ethtool -c eth1' with old kernel now reports 'dmac: 0' where
>   previously it reported some sort of second counter.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <m...@google.com>

Queued for next release.

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