From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Wilson Subject: [PATCH v2] xen-netback: allow changing the MAC address of the interface Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:08:25 +0000 Message-ID: <1358878105-7890-1-git-send-email-msw@amazon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Ian Campbell , Matt Wilson , , , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk To: Return-path: Received: from smtp-fw-4101.amazon.com ([72.21.198.25]:39048 "EHLO smtp-fw-4101.amazon.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753963Ab3AVSIg (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:08:36 -0500 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Sometimes it is useful to be able to change the MAC address of the interface for netback devices. For example, when using ebtables it may be useful to be able to distinguish traffic from different interfaces without depending on the interface name. Reported-by: Nikita Borzykh Reported-by: Paul Harvey Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Acked-by: Ian Campbell Signed-off-by: Matt Wilson --- Changes since v1: * No code changes, only updated commit message --- drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c index b7d41f8..f733cae 100644 --- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c @@ -238,6 +238,8 @@ static const struct net_device_ops xenvif_netdev_ops = { .ndo_stop = xenvif_close, .ndo_change_mtu = xenvif_change_mtu, .ndo_fix_features = xenvif_fix_features, + .ndo_set_mac_address = eth_mac_addr, + .ndo_validate_addr = eth_validate_addr, }; struct xenvif *xenvif_alloc(struct device *parent, domid_t domid, -- 1.7.4.5