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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/ixgbe: fix default MAC setting
Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 16:40:42 +0200
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02/05/2017 10:34, Wenzhuo Lu:
> Pool 0 is not PF, it's VF 0. So the MAC is set for VF 0
> but not PF.
> The code introduced a weird issue. In the scenario PF + VF,
> when only starting PF, the default PF MAC address is working.
> But after starting a VF, the default PF MAC address becomes
> the VF's address.
> 
> Use the pool which is not occupied by VFs for PF to fix it.
> 
> Fixes: 8164fe82846b ("ixgbe: add default mac address modifier")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>

Applied, thanks