[PATCH net-next] net/mlx5e: Allow setting MAC address of representors

Tariq Toukan
2025-05-22T07:14:43Z

From: Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>

A representor netdev does not correspond to real hardware that needs to
be updated when setting the MAC address. The default eth_mac_addr() is
sufficient for simply updating the netdev's MAC address with validation.

Signed-off-by: Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c
index 2abab241f03b..79c6427433e3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c
@@ -803,6 +803,7 @@ static const struct net_device_ops mlx5e_netdev_ops_rep = {
.ndo_stop = mlx5e_rep_close,
.ndo_start_xmit = mlx5e_xmit,
.ndo_setup_tc = mlx5e_rep_setup_tc,
+ .ndo_set_mac_address = eth_mac_addr,
.ndo_get_stats64 = mlx5e_rep_get_stats,
.ndo_has_offload_stats = mlx5e_rep_has_offload_stats,
.ndo_get_offload_stats = mlx5e_rep_get_offload_stats,

base-commit: 3da895b23901964fcf23450f10b529d45069f333
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2.31.1