From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
To: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 1/2] net: netdevsim: Support setting dev->perm_addr on port creation
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2025 20:03:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250707190345.GB452973@horms.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250706-netdevsim-perm_addr-v3-1-88123e2b2027@redhat.com>
On Sun, Jul 06, 2025 at 04:45:31PM +0200, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> Network management daemons that match on the device permanent address
> currently have no virtual interface types to test against.
> NetworkManager, in particular, has carried an out of tree patch to set
> the permanent address on netdevsim devices to use in its CI for this
> purpose.
>
> To support this use case, support setting netdev->perm_addr when
> creating a netdevsim port.
>
> Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-07 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-06 14:45 [PATCH net-next v3 0/2] netdevsim: support setting a permanent address Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2025-07-06 14:45 ` [PATCH net-next v3 1/2] net: netdevsim: Support setting dev->perm_addr on port creation Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2025-07-07 19:03 ` Simon Horman [this message]
2025-07-10 2:20 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-07-06 14:45 ` [PATCH net-next v3 2/2] selftests: net: add netdev-l2addr.sh for testing L2 address functionality Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2025-07-07 19:03 ` Simon Horman
2025-07-10 2:17 ` Jakub Kicinski
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