From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rusty Russell Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_net: Allow setting the MAC address of the NIC Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 10:07:12 +1030 Message-ID: <200902051007.13042.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> References: <200901271305.16832.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <20090204191826.2481.17875.stgit@debian.lart> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: markmc@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Alex Williamson Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090204191826.2481.17875.stgit@debian.lart> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thursday 05 February 2009 05:56:06 Alex Williamson wrote: > Many physical NICs let the OS re-program the "hardware" MAC > address. Virtual NICs should allow this too. > > Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson > Acked-by: Mark McLoughlin > --- > > Rusty, you've already applied this to your patch queue, but that version > won't apply cleanly after the MAC and VLAN filtering patches I just sent > for net-next-2.6 (just diff context changes). This version should apply > cleanly, so either drop the original and apply this after rebase, or > maybe it should just go directly into net-next-2.6? Thanks, Yes, it should go directly into net-next-2.6. I like to keep some variant in my tree so I can see when they go upstream (and ideally notice if they haven't for some reason). Thanks, Rusty.