Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.16 047/217] cirrus: mac89x0: use eth_hw_addr_set()

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Tue Jan 18 2022 - 11:56:47 EST


On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 21:16:50 -0500 Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit 9a962aedd30f7fceb828d3161a80e0526e358eb5 ]
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> Byte by byte assignments.
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> Fixes build on m68k.
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> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Sasha! You can drop all the eth_hw_addr_set() patches.
They aren't fixes, I should have used a different verb, the point
was to mention the arch where the driver is built. The patches are
only needed in 5.17 where netdev->dev_addr becomes a const.

I think that's patches 34-47, 53.