netdev - Re: [PATCH] igb: Indicate failure on vf reset for empty mac address

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Date:	Wed, 08 Oct 2014 14:29:25 -0700
From:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:	Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@...el.com>,
	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>,
	Stefan Assmann <sassmann@...nic.de>,
	Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@...el.com>,
	Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@...el.com>,
	John Ronciak <john.ronciak@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] igb: Indicate failure on vf reset for empty mac address

On Wed, 2014-10-08 at 23:23 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> Commit 5ac6f91d changed the igb driver to expose a zero (empty) mac
> address to the VF on reset rather than a random one.
> 
> However, that behavioral change also requires igbvf driver changes
> which can be hard especially when we want to talk to proprietary
> guest OSs.
> 
> Looking at the code previous to the commit in Linux that made igbvf
> work with empty mac addresses (8d56b6d), we can see that on reset
> failure the driver will try to generate a new mac address with both
> the old and the new code.
> 
> Furthermore, ixgbe does send reset failure when it detects an empty
> mac address (35055928c).
> 
> So I think it's safe to make igb behave the same. With this patch I
> can successfully run a Windows 8.1 guest with an empty mac address
> and an assigned igbvf device that has no mac address set by the host.
> 
> If anyone is aware of a guest driver that chokes on NACK returns of
> VF RESET commands, please speak up.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Thanks Alexander, I will add your patch to my queue.

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