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Message-ID: <d6777bc1-46ad-4ad9-a7e3-655dbe4f6317@lunn.ch>
Date:   Wed, 6 Sep 2023 14:31:16 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Sergio Callegari <sergio.callegari@...il.com>
Cc:     Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Regressions <regressions@...ts.linux.dev>,
        Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: Regression with AX88179A: can't manually set MAC address anymore

> So if the in-tree driver could be fixed to correctly support the manual
> configuration of the hardware (MAC) address as it used to be that would be
> the best. I hope that Andrew Lunn's hypothesis is correct, and that cdc_ncm
> can be extended to work with AX88179A even when a manual MAC addr is
> configured.

I think it can, but it looks like it needs a different
implementation. The CDC NCM standard is publicly available. It
documents an optional call to set the MAC address, and there appears
to be a capability bit to indicate if its implemented in a specific
device. Ideally if the bit is not set -EOPNOTSUPP should be returned
when trying to set the MAC address, otherwise make the call to let the
hardware know of the new MAC address.

Sorry, i don't have the time or the hardware to actually implement
this. But i can review patches and help with processes.

      Andrew

	

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