From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>
To: Paul Fertser <fercerpav@gmail•com>
Cc: davem@davemloft•net, netdev@vger•kernel.org, edumazet@google•com,
pabeni@redhat•com, andrew+netdev@lunn•ch, horms@kernel•org,
Potin Lai <potin.lai@quantatw•com>,
Potin Lai <potin.lai.pt@gmail•com>,
sam@mendozajonas•com, fr0st61te@gmail•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] Revert "net/ncsi: change from ndo_set_mac_address to dev_set_mac_address"
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2025 13:44:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250108134433.2e3978fd@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Z37eu/758pzGSGzO@home.paul.comp>
On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 23:23:23 +0300 Paul Fertser wrote:
> > Original posting by Potin Lai:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/20241129-potin-revert-ncsi-set-mac-addr-v1-1-94ea2cb596af@gmail.com
>
> Unfortunately I wasn't on CC and missed that. Can we fix this proper
> way please, do we have few more days?
Sure thing, we need it in the tree early next week, so probably on
the list by Friday so that folks have a chance to review.
> If I get it right dev_set_mac_address() just isn't meant to be ever
> called from a softirq (and NCSI here is special in getting a MAC
> address update from a "network" frame so that happens in
> net_rx_action() context). So postponing the actual processing of this
> reply looks like the way to go, right?
I think so. Only trickiness I can think of is the ordering of the work
vs admin setting the address from user space. Do venture a patch,
I don't know enough about NC-SI.. :(
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-01-08 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-01-08 19:23 [PATCH net v2] Revert "net/ncsi: change from ndo_set_mac_address to dev_set_mac_address" Jakub Kicinski
2025-01-08 20:23 ` Paul Fertser
2025-01-08 21:44 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2025-01-08 21:48 ` Ivan Mikhaylov
2025-01-09 3:16 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-01-09 14:50 ` [PATCH] net/ncsi: fix locking in Get MAC Address handling Paul Fertser
2025-01-09 16:33 ` Jakub Kicinski
[not found] ` <TYSPR04MB7868EA6003981521C1B2FDAB8E1C2@TYSPR04MB7868.apcprd04.prod.outlook.com>
2025-01-11 2:18 ` 回覆: [External] " Jakub Kicinski
2025-01-11 11:12 ` Potin Lai
2025-01-13 21:19 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-01-14 1:56 ` Potin Lai
2025-01-14 3:04 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-01-14 3:10 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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