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

Simon Horman
2025-05-22T15:58:19Z

On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 10:13:56AM +0300, Tariq Toukan wrote:
> 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>

Thanks.

I note that this is consistent with at least nfp_repr_netdev_ops.

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>