From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shradha Shah Subject: [PATCH net-next 09/13] sfc: Use canonical pointer type for MAC address in efx_set_mac_address() Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 18:59:54 +0000 Message-ID: <52FBC4AA.9070404@solarflare.com> References: <52FBC3C2.7030103@solarflare.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: , To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from webmail.solarflare.com ([12.187.104.25]:50971 "EHLO webmail.solarflare.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752706AbaBLS77 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Feb 2014 13:59:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: <52FBC3C2.7030103@solarflare.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Ben Hutchings Functions such as is_valid_ether_addr() expect u8 *, so use that instead of char *. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Shradha Shah --- drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c index 84a1e11..91acdc2 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,