netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] enic: remove assignment of random mac on enic vf

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Date:	Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:13:37 -0800
From:	Roopa Prabhu <roprabhu@...co.com>
To:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] enic: remove assignment of random mac on
 enic vf

Please apply this patch on top of recently submitted "enic: Fix address
deregistration for sriov vf during port profile disassociate" patch. Thanks.


On 2/12/12 12:12 AM, "Roopa Prabhu" <roprabhu@...co.com> wrote:

> From: Roopa Prabhu <roprabhu@...co.com>
> 
> This patch removes random mac assignment on vf's. The vf's will start with
> a zero mac and with upcoming support in fw/driver, a vf mac can be set
> via the pf. vf's also support ndo_set_mac_address. This decision was made
> based on the fact that a random mac on a vf is not really needed. And this
> will reduce some of the problems with the vf's getting a new mac on
> every driver load/unload (one of them being udev renaming the device on ever
> load/unload and reboot).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roprabhu@...co.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Benvenuti <benve@...co.com>
> Signed-off-by: sujith sankar <ssujith@...co.com>
> Signed-off-by: ChingWei Chang <cwchang@...co.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic.h      |    2 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic_main.c |    5 -----
>  2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic.h
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic.h
> index e65d431..f7c3067 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic.h
> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
>  
>  #define DRV_NAME  "enic"
>  #define DRV_DESCRIPTION  "Cisco VIC Ethernet NIC Driver"
> -#define DRV_VERSION  "2.1.1.34"
> +#define DRV_VERSION  "2.1.1.35"
>  #define DRV_COPYRIGHT  "Copyright 2008-2011 Cisco Systems, Inc"
>  
>  #define ENIC_BARS_MAX  6
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic_main.c
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic_main.c
> index 2838891..dd7e24b 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic_main.c
> @@ -2463,11 +2463,6 @@ static int __devinit enic_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
> enic->port_mtu = enic->config.mtu;
> (void)enic_change_mtu(netdev, enic->port_mtu);
>  
> -#ifdef CONFIG_PCI_IOV
> - if (enic_is_sriov_vf(enic) && is_zero_ether_addr(enic->mac_addr))
> -  random_ether_addr(enic->mac_addr);
> -#endif
> -
> err = enic_set_mac_addr(netdev, enic->mac_addr);
> if (err) {
> dev_err(dev, "Invalid MAC address, aborting\n");
> 
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