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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>
To: Scott Feldman <scofeldm@cisco•com>
Cc: davem@davemloft•net, netdev@vger•kernel.org, chrisw@redhat•com
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 V5 PATCH 2/3] Add ndo_{set|get}_vf_port_profile op support for enic dynamic vnics
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 15:47:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201005061547.22400.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100506044211.29677.59331.stgit@savbu-pc100.cisco.com>

On Thursday 06 May 2010, Scott Feldman wrote:
> @@ -810,14 +819,24 @@ static void enic_reset_mcaddrs(struct enic *enic)
>  
>  static int enic_set_mac_addr(struct net_device *netdev, char *addr)
>  {
> -       if (!is_valid_ether_addr(addr))
> -               return -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
> +       struct enic *enic = netdev_priv(netdev);
>  
> -       memcpy(netdev->dev_addr, addr, netdev->addr_len);
> +       if (enic_is_dynamic(enic)) {
> +               random_ether_addr(netdev->dev_addr);
> +       } else {
> +               if (!is_valid_ether_addr(addr))
> +                       return -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
> +               memcpy(netdev->dev_addr, addr, netdev->addr_len);
> +       }
>  
>         return 0;
>  }
>  
> +static int enic_set_mac_address(struct net_device *netdev, void *p)
> +{
> +       return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> +}
> +
>  /* netif_tx_lock held, BHs disabled */
>  static void enic_set_multicast_list(struct net_device *netdev)
>  {

Thsi looks funny. So you just ignore the address that gets passed to
enic_set_mac_addr for dynamic interfaces and instead set a random
address?

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-06 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-06  4:42 [net-next-2.6 V5 PATCH 0/3] Add port-profile netlink support Scott Feldman
2010-05-06  4:42 ` [net-next-2.6 V5 PATCH 1/3] Add netdev/netlink port-profile support (was iovnl) Scott Feldman
2010-05-06  4:42 ` [net-next-2.6 V5 PATCH 2/3] Add ndo_{set|get}_vf_port_profile op support for enic dynamic vnics Scott Feldman
2010-05-06 13:47   ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2010-05-06 16:25     ` Scott Feldman
2010-05-06 16:45       ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-06  4:42 ` [net-next-2.6 V5 PATCH 3/3] Add SR-IOV support to enic (please don't apply this patch) Scott Feldman
2010-05-06 13:51 ` [net-next-2.6 V5 PATCH 0/3] Add port-profile netlink support Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-06 16:19   ` Scott Feldman
2010-05-06 16:42     ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-08 23:20       ` [PATCH] virtif: initial interface extensions Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-10 15:37         ` Stefan Berger
2010-05-10 18:56           ` Scott Feldman
2010-05-10 21:46             ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-10 23:51               ` Stefan Berger
2010-05-11  0:25               ` Scott Feldman
2010-05-11 12:59                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-11 17:15                 ` Vivek Kashyap
     [not found]               ` <OFFE8F5F70.5C07C656-ON8525771F.00787A71-8525771F.007FCDFC@us.ibm.com>
2010-05-11 12:25                 ` Arnd Bergmann
     [not found]                   ` <OF2E2B37D4.51A81D74-ON85257720.0045FA96-85257720.004C5403@us.ibm.com>
2010-05-11 14:22                     ` Arnd Bergmann

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