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

[Sasha Levin]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 08:56:41AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 21:16:50 -0500 Sasha Levin wrote:
> > From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit 9a962aedd30f7fceb828d3161a80e0526e358eb5 ]
> >
> > Byte by byte assignments.
> >
> > Fixes build on m68k.
> >
> > 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.

Will do, thanks!

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Thanks,
Sasha