[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next v1] iavf: Add waiting for response from PF in set mac

[Nguyen, Anthony L <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>]

On Tue, 2022-01-25 at 11:19 +0000, Palczewski, Mateusz wrote:
> > On Mon, 2022-01-24 at 16:45 +0100, Mateusz Palczewski wrote:
> > > Make iavf_set_mac synchronous by waiting for a response from a
> > > PF. 
> > > Without this iavf_set_mac is always returning success even though
> > > set_mac can be rejected by a PF.
> > > This ensures that when set_mac exits netdev MAC is updated.
> > > This is needed for sending ARPs with correct MAC after changing
> > > VF's 
> > > MAC. This is also needed by bonding module.
> > 
> > This sounds very much like this patch [1] or is this resolving a
> > different issue?
> Hi, 
> this is resolving a different issue that is being currently tracked
> on bugzilla:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1938635

Thanks for providing that info. I do have some feedback on the patch,
I'll reply to the original so that I can make them inline.

Thanks,
Tony

> > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Sylwester Dziedziuch
> > > <sylwesterx.dziedziuch@intel.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Mateusz Palczewski <mateusz.palczewski@intel.com>
> > > ---
> > 
> > [1]
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/
> > ?
> > id=c5c922b3e09b6e5eeb9cd2b1122f3e49c0bf2283
>