@@ -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
@@ -4641,6 +4641,24 @@ void __hw_addr_unsync_dev(struct netdev_hw_addr_list *list,
void __hw_addr_init(struct netdev_hw_addr_list *list);
/* Functions used for device addresses handling */
+static inline void
+__dev_addr_set(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *addr, size_t len)
+{
+ memcpy(dev->dev_addr, addr, len);
+}
+
+static inline void dev_addr_set(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *addr)
+{
+ __dev_addr_set(dev, addr, dev->addr_len);
+}
+
+static inline void
+dev_addr_mod(struct net_device *dev, unsigned int offset,
+ const u8 *addr, size_t len)
+{
+ memcpy(&dev->dev_addr[offset], addr, len);
+}
+
int dev_addr_add(struct net_device *dev, const unsigned char *addr,
unsigned char addr_type);
int dev_addr_del(struct net_device *dev, const unsigned char *addr,
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> --- Looking at the code these seem to be the helpers we'll need to cover most cases. Adding them early so they propagate to other trees, the patches to use those will start flowing after the merge window. --- include/linux/etherdevice.h | 12 ++++++++++++ include/linux/netdevice.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+)