netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] net: marvell: prestera: force good base mac

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Message-ID: <d58e8059-66b7-4545-896a-6194b98000ef@lunn.ch>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 01:13:09 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Elad Nachman <enachman@...vell.com>
Cc: taras.chornyi@...ision.eu, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
	kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, kory.maincent@...tlin.com,
	thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com, miquel.raynal@...tlin.com,
	przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com, dkirjanov@...e.de,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] net: marvell: prestera: force good base mac

On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 07:20:07PM +0200, Elad Nachman wrote:
> From: Elad Nachman <enachman@...vell.com>
> 
> The switching ASIC router HW unit MAC Source Address is configured with
> 40-bits of MAC base address in its registers (done in the firmware code),
> requiring all ports doing L3 routing in HW to have the same upper 40-bit
> MAC address.
> 
> Since each switchport MAC address uses the switch base mac address and
> then adds the physical port number to it, Force the last byte of the
> switch base mac address to be at most 127, so when adding to it, we
> will not wrap around the previous (more significant) mac address byte,
> resulting in a warning message.
> 
> Fixes: 501ef3066c89 ("net: marvell: prestera: Add driver for Prestera family ASIC devices")
> Signed-off-by: Elad Nachman <enachman@...vell.com>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>

    Andrew