qede: Don't use an internal MAC field

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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>

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Mintz, Yuval 2017-05-21 12:10:55 +03:00 • committed by David S. Miller

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drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede.h

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drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_filter.c

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drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_main.c

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