From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 V5 PATCH 2/3] Add ndo_{set|get}_vf_port_profile op support for enic dynamic vnics Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 18:45:16 +0200 Message-ID: <201005061845.16751.arnd@arndb.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, chrisw@redhat.com To: Scott Feldman Return-path: Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:52589 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753569Ab0EFQpS (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 May 2010 12:45:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thursday 06 May 2010, Scott Feldman wrote: > Dynamic enics have all-zero mac address on init, so we assign a random mac > addr to the interface. This would seem less funny: > > if (enic_is_dynamic(enic) && is_zero_ether_addr(addr)) > random_ether_addr(netdev->dev_addr); > else > ... > > I'll make that change and resubmit with your VDP additions if you like. The change is ok, but what I think would be more helpful is a code comment with your above sentence. Arnd