net: create netdev->dev_addr assignment helpers

Recent work on converting address list to a tree made it obvious
we need an abstraction around writing netdev->dev_addr. Without
such abstraction updating the main device address is invisible
to the core.

Introduce a number of helpers which for now just wrap memcpy()
but in the future can make necessary changes to the address
tree.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Jakub Kicinski
2021-09-02 11:10:37 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 8c9bc823ef
commit 48eab831ae
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@@ -299,6 +299,18 @@ static inline void ether_addr_copy(u8 *dst, const u8 *src)
#endif
}
/**
* eth_hw_addr_set - Assign Ethernet address to a net_device
* @dev: pointer to net_device structure
* @addr: address to assign
*
* Assign given address to the net_device, addr_assign_type is not changed.
*/
static inline void eth_hw_addr_set(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *addr)
{
ether_addr_copy(dev->dev_addr, addr);
}
/**
* eth_hw_addr_inherit - Copy dev_addr from another net_device
* @dst: pointer to net_device to copy dev_addr to