netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 01/11] arch: use eth_hw_addr

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Date:   Sat, 2 Oct 2021 11:19:01 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-m68k <linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org>,
        Chris Zankel <chris@...kel.net>,
        Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@...il.com>,
        "open list:TENSILICA XTENSA PORT (xtensa)" 
        <linux-xtensa@...ux-xtensa.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 01/11] arch: use eth_hw_addr_set()

On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 11:32 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
> Commit 406f42fa0d3c ("net-next: When a bond have a massive amount
> of VLANs...") introduced a rbtree for faster Ethernet address look
> up. To maintain netdev->dev_addr in this tree we need to make all
> the writes to it got through appropriate helpers.
>
> Convert misc arch drivers from memcpy(... ETH_ADDR) to eth_hw_addr_set():
>
>   @@
>   expression dev, np;
>   @@
>   - memcpy(dev->dev_addr, np, ETH_ALEN)
>   + eth_hw_addr_set(dev, np)
>
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>

>  arch/m68k/emu/nfeth.c               | 2 +-

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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