netdev - Re: [PATCH] enic: Store permanent MAC address during probe()

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Message-Id: <20170322.112649.1805832210360686563.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 22 Mar 2017 11:26:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     pjwaskiewicz@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, benve@...co.com, ssujith@...co.com,
        _govind@....com, neepatel@...co.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] enic: Store permanent MAC address during probe()

From: PJ Waskiewicz <pjwaskiewicz@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 15:41:20 -0700

> From: PJ Waskiewicz <pjwaskiewicz@...il.com>
> 
> The permanent MAC address is useful to store for things like ethtool,
> and when bonding with modes such as active/passive or LACP.  This
> follows the model of other Ethernet drivers, such as ixgbe.
> 
> This was verified on a C220 chassis with the Cisco VNIC Ethernet device.
> 
> Signed-off-by: PJ Waskiewicz <pjwaskiewicz@...il.com>

As per the discussion, upstream fixes this generically, so I'm dropping
this.