Re: [PATCH net-next 7/7] ethernet: replace netdev->dev_addr 16bit writes
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Date: 2021-10-14 02:28:36
On 10/13/2021 1:44 PM, 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.
This patch takes care of drivers which cast netdev->dev_addr to
a 16bit type, often with an explicit byte order.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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---drivers/net/ethernet/rdc/r6040.c | 12 ++++++------
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> -- Florian