netdev - Re: [PATCH] virtio_net: Allow setting the MAC address of the NIC

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Date:	Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:36:43 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	rusty@...tcorp.com.au
Cc:	alex.williamson@...com, markmc@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_net: Allow setting the MAC address of the NIC

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 10:07:12 +1030

> On Thursday 05 February 2009 05:56:06 Alex Williamson wrote:
> > Many physical NICs let the OS re-program the "hardware" MAC
> > address.  Virtual NICs should allow this too.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...com>
> > Acked-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>
> > ---
> > 
> > Rusty, you've already applied this to your patch queue, but that version
> > won't apply cleanly after the MAC and VLAN filtering patches I just sent
> > for net-next-2.6 (just diff context changes).  This version should apply
> > cleanly, so either drop the original and apply this after rebase, or
> > maybe it should just go directly into net-next-2.6?  Thanks,
> 
> Yes, it should go directly into net-next-2.6.

Applied to net-next-2.6
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