From 3f9924eac2cda69b044aa9a1af95520149065726 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "J. Nick Koston" <nick@koston.org>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2025 20:42:07 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] [core] Merge duplicate loops in mac_address_is_valid()
 (#11018)

---
 esphome/core/helpers.cpp | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/esphome/core/helpers.cpp b/esphome/core/helpers.cpp
index f1560711ef..85c33ea2d3 100644
--- a/esphome/core/helpers.cpp
+++ b/esphome/core/helpers.cpp
@@ -613,8 +613,6 @@ bool mac_address_is_valid(const uint8_t *mac) {
     if (mac[i] != 0) {
       is_all_zeros = false;
     }
-  }
-  for (uint8_t i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
     if (mac[i] != 0xFF) {
       is_all_ones = false;
     }