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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Cc: markmc@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_net: Allow setting the MAC address of the NIC
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 10:07:12 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902051007.13042.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090204191826.2481.17875.stgit@debian.lart>

On Thursday 05 February 2009 05:56:06 Alex Williamson wrote:
> Many physical NICs let the OS re-program the "hardware" MAC
> address.  Virtual NICs should allow this too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
> Acked-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> Rusty, you've already applied this to your patch queue, but that version
> won't apply cleanly after the MAC and VLAN filtering patches I just sent
> for net-next-2.6 (just diff context changes).  This version should apply
> cleanly, so either drop the original and apply this after rebase, or
> maybe it should just go directly into net-next-2.6?  Thanks,

Yes, it should go directly into net-next-2.6.

I like to keep some variant in my tree so I can see when they go upstream
(and ideally notice if they haven't for some reason).

Thanks,
Rusty.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-04 23:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200901271305.16832.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-02-04 19:26 ` [PATCH] virtio_net: Allow setting the MAC address of the NIC Alex Williamson
2009-02-04 23:37   ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2009-02-05  0:36     ` David Miller

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