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

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Message-Id: <20120213.005119.487737759192819670.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:51:19 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	roprabhu@...co.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] enic: remove assignment of random mac on
 enic vf

From: Roopa Prabhu <roprabhu@...co.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:12:44 -0800

> 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>

Applied.
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