netdev: fix device address setting for kernel > 5.15 #11
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An "Incompatible netdev->dev_addr" occurs when using this driver on kernels > 5.15. For these kernels, eth_hw_addr_set() should be used instead of memcpy().
eth_hw_addr_set was introduced on v5.15-rc1
torvalds/linux@48eab83
examples
torvalds/linux@b57ceb1
torvalds/linux@349f631
This change has already been applied upstream in Etherlab:
https://gitlab.com/etherlab.org/ethercat/-/commit/d301cbb992e80218735b81c73d49fec705f91d08