Re: [PATCH net-next 01/11] arch: use eth_hw_addr_set()

On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 11:32 PM Jakub Kicinski [off-list ref] 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@kernel.org>

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

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

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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