netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/4] virtio_net: Allow setting the MAC address of the NIC

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Message-Id: <1231928106.4944.289.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:15:06 +0000
From:	Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>
To:	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...com>
Cc:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, kvm <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] virtio_net: Allow setting the MAC address of the
 NIC

On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 14:23 -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:

Commit log explaining why we need this.

> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...com>

Acked-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>

> +	} else {
>  		random_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr);
> +		vdev->config->set(vdev, offsetof(struct virtio_net_config, mac),
> +				  dev->dev_addr, dev->addr_len);
> +	}

Please make sure you test this with a host which doesn't set a default
mac address, otherwise it's "untested buggy code" :-)

Cheers,
Mark.

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