From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: akong@redhat.com Subject: [PATCH v2 0/2] make mac programming for virtio net more robust Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:56:59 +0800 Message-ID: <1358315821-29519-1-git-send-email-akong@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, davem@davemloft.net To: mst@redhat.com Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Amos Kong Currenly mac is programmed byte by byte. This means that we have an intermediate step where mac is wrong. Second patch introduced a new vq control command to set mac address in one time. V2: check return of sending command, delay eth_mac_addr() Amos Kong (2): move virtnet_send_command() above virtnet_set_mac_address() virtio-net: introduce a new control to set macaddr drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 113 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h | 8 ++- 2 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-) -- 1.7.11.7