netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] firewire: don't write directly to netdev->dev

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Message-Id: <163542361293.29870.11627651089310306022.git-patchwork-notify@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 28 Oct 2021 12:20:12 +0000
From:   patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de, linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] firewire: don't write directly to netdev->dev_addr

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (master)
by David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>:

On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 10:53:52 -0700 you 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 go through appropriate helpers.
> 
> Prepare fwnet_hwaddr on the stack and use dev_addr_set() to copy
> it to netdev->dev_addr. We no longer need to worry about alignment.
> union fwnet_hwaddr does not have any padding and we set all fields
> so we don't need to zero it upfront.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net-next] firewire: don't write directly to netdev->dev_addr
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/aaaaa1377e7a

You are awesome, thank you!
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