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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] virtio-spec: set mac address by a new vq command
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:35:06 +1030
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akong@redhat.com writes:
> From: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
>
> Virtio-net driver currently programs MAC address byte by byte,
> this means that we have an intermediate step where mac is wrong.
> This patch introduced a new control command to set MAC address
> in one time, and added a new feature flag VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC_ADDR
> for this feature.
>
> "mac" field will be set to read-only when VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR
>  is acked.

Thanks, applied.

Cheers,
Rusty.