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authorBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>2014-02-12 18:59:54 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-02-12 17:53:35 -0500
commite0b3ae30a2a4d4303ea394e4c2edd8f215dbb13b (patch)
tree3de3b4b3478818e4e62a9db399522409ec9cb412
parent93413f5058aa129bd6134b3176633a5ce198567b (diff)
downloadlinux-e0b3ae30a2a4d4303ea394e4c2edd8f215dbb13b.tar.bz2
sfc: Use canonical pointer type for MAC address in efx_set_mac_address()
Functions such as is_valid_ether_addr() expect u8 *, so use that instead of char *. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: Shradha Shah <sshah@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c
index 84a1e11ddd79..91acdc28b247 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c
@@ -2113,7 +2113,7 @@ static int efx_set_mac_address(struct net_device *net_dev, void *data)
{
struct efx_nic *efx = netdev_priv(net_dev);
struct sockaddr *addr = data;
- char *new_addr = addr->sa_data;
+ u8 *new_addr = addr->sa_data;
if (!is_valid_ether_addr(new_addr)) {
netif_err(efx, drv, efx->net_dev,