netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] net: split eth_mac_addr for better error handling

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Message-Id: <20130120.231432.1625470984232658368.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 20 Jan 2013 23:14:32 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	akong@...hat.com
Cc:	mst@...hat.com, rusty@...tcorp.com.au, qemu-devel@...gnu.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] net: split eth_mac_addr for better error
 handling

From: akong@...hat.com
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:43:08 +0800

> From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...il.com>
> 
> When we set mac address, software mac address in system and hardware mac
> address all need to be updated. Current eth_mac_addr() doesn't allow
> callers to implement error handling nicely.
> 
> This patch split eth_mac_addr() to prepare part and real commit part,
> then we can prepare first, and try to change hardware address, then do
> the real commit if hardware address is set successfully.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <akong@...hat.com>

This patch doesn't apply to net-next.
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