netdev - Re: [PATCH] ibmveth: Add function to enable live MAC address changes

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Date:	Thu, 26 Feb 2015 16:55:12 +0100
From:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:	Brian King <brking@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ibmveth: Add function to enable live MAC address changes

Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 02:08:06PM CET, brking@...ux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
>On 02/25/2015 06:34 PM, Thomas Falcon wrote:
>> @@ -1327,6 +1327,24 @@ static unsigned long ibmveth_get_desired_dma(struct vio_dev *vdev)
>>  	return ret;
>>  }
>> 
>> +static int ibmveth_set_mac_addr(struct net_device *dev, void *p)
>> +{
>> +	struct ibmveth_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(dev);
>> +	struct sockaddr *addr = p;
>> +	u64 mac_address;
>> +	int rc;
>> +
>> +	if (!is_valid_ether_addr(addr->sa_data))
>> +		return -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
>> +
>> +	ether_addr_copy(dev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data);
>> +
>> +	mac_address = ibmveth_encode_mac_addr(dev->dev_addr);
>> +	rc = h_change_logical_lan_mac(adapter->vdev->unit_address, mac_address);
>> +
>> +	return rc;
>
>Do you still want to be changing dev->dev_addr if h_change_logical_lan_mac
>returns a failure?

That should not be done. dev_addr should be in sync with real hw addr.
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