On Thu, 21 Oct 2021 00:30:23 +0200 Julian Wiedmann wrote:
> On 20.10.21 17:56, 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.
> >
> > Make sure local references to netdev->dev_addr are constant.
> >
>
> Acked-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks Jakub. I suppose at some point __dev_addr_set() will then
> become more than just a memcpy, correct?
Yup, once all places are converted it will also adjust the position of
the address on the tree.
