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igb: clean up code for setting MAC address
authorAlexander Duyck <aduyck@mirantis.com>
Thu, 7 Jan 2016 07:10:23 +0000 (23:10 -0800)
committerKirtikar Kashyap <kirtikar.kashyap@oracle.com>
Thu, 22 Jun 2017 21:28:29 +0000 (14:28 -0700)
commit6da09c5c01205348bbfbca3ea4e984b645fbe6c0
treecabe6679a84bee72e5639ab1b25ddd84619af49d
parentc92dc370f6819eb0424774d60af6423cba3df247
igb: clean up code for setting MAC address

Drop a bunch of hand written byte swapping code in favor of just doing the
byte swapping ourselves.  The registers are little endian registers storing
a big endian value so if we read the MAC address array as little endian
then we will get the CPU registers into the proper layout.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <aduyck@mirantis.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
(cherry picked from commit c3278587e7d34cfbc1d38d3ae25923343af7752a)

Orabug: 26325580

Signed-off-by: Kirtikar Kashyap <kirtikar.kashyap@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jack Vogel <jack.vogel@oracle.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c