netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH] octeontx2-pf: Check for DMAC extraction before setting VF DMAC

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Message-ID: <20250625190247.GO1562@horms.kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 20:02:47 +0100
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@...vell.com>
Cc: andrew+netdev@...n.ch, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
	kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, sgoutham@...vell.com,
	gakula@...vell.com, hkelam@...vell.com, bbhushan2@...vell.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Suman Ghosh <sumang@...vell.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH] octeontx2-pf: Check for DMAC extraction before
 setting VF DMAC

On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 05:00:02PM +0530, Subbaraya Sundeep wrote:
> From: Suman Ghosh <sumang@...vell.com>
> 
> Currently while setting a MAC address of a PF's VF (e.g. ip link set
> <pf-netdev> vf 0 mac <mac-address>), it simply tries to install a DMAC
> based hardware filter. But it is possible that the loaded hardware parser
> profile does not support DMAC extraction. Hence check for DMAC extraction
> before installing the filter.

Makes sense to me, but should this be treated as a bug fix?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Suman Ghosh <sumang@...vell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@...vell.com>

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