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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: vmxnet3 ethernet driver
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 09:25:05 +0100
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On 9/14/2017 12:32 PM, Mukunda Naresh wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Need your inputs on below functions.
> 
> Vmxnet3 driver in dpdk does not have the whitelist filter for unicast mac
> addresses. So addition/removal of MAC addresses using
> rte_eth_dev_mac_addr_add and rte_eth_dev_mac_addr_remove will always fail
> in case of vmxnet3. These functions will always return -95 (or -ENOTSUP).

Hi Mukunda,

mac_addr_set seems added in v16.04 [1] to vmxnet3,
but mac_addr_add & mac_addr_remove are still missing, a patch is welcome
to add those features.


[1]
Commit: 139f39a97859 ("vmxnet3: support setting MAC address")

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