netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: vrf: Fix operation not supported when set vrf mac

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Message-ID: <0ec3b7b7-61f4-be9b-ab52-3f046d44c440@huawei.com>
Date:   Sun, 21 Apr 2019 15:17:02 +0800
From:   linmiaohe <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
To:     David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>, <shrijeet@...il.com>,
        <davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     Mingfangsen <mingfangsen@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: vrf: Fix operation not supported when set vrf mac



On 2019/4/20 22:42, David Ahern wrote:
> On 4/19/19 10:09 PM, linmiaohe wrote:
>> From: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
>>
>> Vrf device is not able to change mac address now because lack of
>> ndo_set_mac_address. Complete this in case some apps need to do
>> this.
>>
> 
> mac on a VRF device is irrelevant so what is the point of allowing apps
> to change it?
> 
> 
Sure, mac on a VRF device is irrelevant. There is no point of allowing
apps to change it, but someone around complains about it. So let's just
ignore the voice of the complaining.