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Driver maintains its primary MAC in a private field which gets updated when ndo_dev_set_mac() gets called. However, there are flows where the primary MAC of the device can change without said NDO being called [bond device in TLB mode configuring slaves' addresses], resulting in a configuration where there's a mismatch between what's apparent to user [the netdevice's value] and what's configured in the HW [the private value]. As we don't have any real motivation of maintaining this private field, simply remove it and start using the netdevice's field instead. Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.