netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 09/12] net: s390: constify and use eth_hw_addr

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Date:   Thu, 21 Oct 2021 06:05:08 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Julian Wiedmann <jwi@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kgraul@...ux.ibm.com,
        hca@...ux.ibm.com, gor@...ux.ibm.com, borntraeger@...ibm.com,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 09/12] net: s390: constify and use
 eth_hw_addr_set()

On Thu, 21 Oct 2021 00:30:23 +0200 Julian Wiedmann wrote:
> On 20.10.21 17:56, Jakub Kicinski 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.
> > 
> > Make sure local references to netdev->dev_addr are constant.
> >   
> 
> Acked-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@...ux.ibm.com>
> 
> Thanks Jakub. I suppose at some point __dev_addr_set() will then
> become more than just a memcpy, correct?

Yup, once all places are converted it will also adjust the position of
the address on the tree.