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From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
To: Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@marvell.com>
Cc: andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com,
	kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, sgoutham@marvell.com,
	gakula@marvell.com, hkelam@marvell.com, bbhushan2@marvell.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Suman Ghosh <sumang@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH] octeontx2-pf: Check for DMAC extraction before setting VF DMAC
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 20:02:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250625190247.GO1562@horms.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1750851002-19418-1-git-send-email-sbhatta@marvell.com>

On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 05:00:02PM +0530, Subbaraya Sundeep wrote:
> From: Suman Ghosh <sumang@marvell.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@marvell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@marvell.com>

...

  reply	other threads:[~2025-06-25 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-06-25 11:30 [net-next PATCH] octeontx2-pf: Check for DMAC extraction before setting VF DMAC Subbaraya Sundeep
2025-06-25 19:02 ` Simon Horman [this message]
2025-06-26  6:23   ` Subbaraya Sundeep
2025-06-26  7:25     ` Simon Horman
2025-06-27 23:59 ` Jakub Kicinski

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