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>

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c
index 84a1e11ddd79196aff21796ebb80c0545cf099a1..91acdc28b247bc3151a3abc06857e79221fb0053 100644 (file)
--- 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,