From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.4] xen-netback: allow changing the MAC address of the interface Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 16:14:58 -0700 Message-ID: <20140605231458.GA31114@kroah.com> References: <1401738380-11102-1-git-send-email-daniel.kiper@oracle.com> <20140605.145844.382754247234672637.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: daniel.kiper@oracle.com, stable@vger.kernel.org, msw@amazon.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xen.org, konrad.wilk@oracle.com To: David Miller Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140605.145844.382754247234672637.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 02:58:44PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Daniel Kiper > Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 21:46:20 +0200 > > > From: Matt Wilson > > > > Sometimes it is useful to be able to change the MAC address of the > > interface for netback devices. For example, when using ebtables it may > > be useful to be able to distinguish traffic from different interfaces > > without depending on the interface name. > > > > Reported-by: Nikita Borzykh > > Reported-by: Paul Harvey > > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org > > Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org > > Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk > > Acked-by: Ian Campbell > > Signed-off-by: Matt Wilson > > Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk > > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller > > (cherry picked from commit 4a633a602c26497b8285a202830829d3be007c7b) > > > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper > > Tested-by: Daniel Kiper > > Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk > > I don't think this is suitable for -stable. > > -stable should be restricted bug fixes for things that either > are extremely serious, or hit a very huge segment of the user > base. > > This issue does not quality for either condition. Yeah, it seems like a new feature to me, I'll drop it from my to-apply queue. thanks for the review, greg k-h