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From: Lalit Shankar Chowdhury <lalitshankarch@gmail.com>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
	Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org (open list:NETWORKING [IPv4/IPv6]),
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
Cc: Lalit Shankar Chowdhury <lalitshankarch@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net: ipconfig: use ifreq field aliases
Date: Wed,  9 Sep 2026 14:44:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260909144417.28871-1-lalitshankarch@gmail.com> (raw)

Use the ifr_addr and ifr_name macros instead of the lengthier versions.

Signed-off-by: Lalit Shankar Chowdhury <lalitshankarch@gmail.com>
---
 net/ipv4/ipconfig.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
index 155db067eaec..475393a86c91 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
@@ -367,11 +367,11 @@ set_sockaddr(struct sockaddr_in *sin, __be32 addr, __be16 port)
 static int __init ic_setup_if(void)
 {
 	struct ifreq ir;
-	struct sockaddr_in *sin = (void *) &ir.ifr_ifru.ifru_addr;
+	struct sockaddr_in *sin = (void *) &ir.ifr_addr;
 	int err;
 
 	memset(&ir, 0, sizeof(ir));
-	strcpy(ir.ifr_ifrn.ifrn_name, ic_dev->dev->name);
+	strcpy(ir.ifr_name, ic_dev->dev->name);
 	set_sockaddr(sin, ic_myaddr, 0);
 	if ((err = devinet_ioctl(&init_net, SIOCSIFADDR, &ir)) < 0) {
 		pr_err("IP-Config: Unable to set interface address (%d)\n",
-- 
2.53.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-09-09 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-09 14:44 Lalit Shankar Chowdhury [this message]
2026-09-10 10:31 ` Ido Schimmel
2026-09-10 18:19 ` Stephen Hemminger

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