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>
diff --git a/include/linux/etherdevice.h b/include/linux/etherdevice.h
index 330345b..928c411 100644
--- a/include/linux/etherdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/etherdevice.h
@@ -300,6 +300,18 @@
}
/**
+ * 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
* @src: pointer to net_device to copy dev_addr from
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 7c41593..d791632 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -4641,6 +4641,24 @@
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,
