From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: michael.chan@broadcom.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 01/10] bnxt_en: Improve bnxt_vf_update_mac().
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:31:28 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160225.113128.1989544272292631983.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1456388374-1440-2-git-send-email-michael.chan@broadcom.com>
From: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 03:19:25 -0500
> From: Jeffrey Huang <huangjw@broadcom.com>
>
> Allow the VF to setup its own MAC address if the PF has not administratively
> set it for the VF. If the perm_mac_address returned by firmware is all
> zeros, that means the PF has not set up the MAC address for the VF and
> we should store it. This will allow the VF to change the MAC address using
> ndo_set_mac_address() when it sees that the stored permanent MAC address
> is all zeros.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Huang <huangjw@broadcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
What triggers that ->ndo_set_mac_address() call in the VF?
You cannot register an ethernet netdev with an invalid ethernet address,
you must use a random one if you don't have a valid one available.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-25 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-25 8:19 [PATCH net-next 00/10] bnxt_en: updates for net-next Michael Chan
2016-02-25 8:19 ` [PATCH net-next 01/10] bnxt_en: Improve bnxt_vf_update_mac() Michael Chan
2016-02-25 16:31 ` David Miller [this message]
2016-02-25 16:57 ` Michael Chan
2016-02-25 17:09 ` David Miller
2016-02-25 17:15 ` Michael Chan
2016-02-25 19:02 ` David Miller
2016-02-25 8:19 ` [PATCH net-next 02/10] bnxt_en: Send PF driver unload notification to all VFs Michael Chan
2016-02-25 8:19 ` [PATCH net-next 03/10] bnxt_en: Store irq coalescing timer values in micro seconds Michael Chan
2016-02-25 8:19 ` [PATCH net-next 04/10] bnxt_en: Refactor bnxt_hwrm_set_coal() Michael Chan
2016-02-25 16:32 ` David Miller
2016-02-25 8:19 ` [PATCH net-next 05/10] bnxt_en: Add coalescing support for tx rings Michael Chan
2016-02-25 8:19 ` [PATCH net-next 06/10] bnxt_en: Use firmware provided message timeout value Michael Chan
2016-02-25 8:19 ` [PATCH net-next 07/10] bnxt_en: Fix dmesg log firmware error messages Michael Chan
2016-02-25 8:19 ` [PATCH net-next 08/10] bnxt_en: Add installed-package firmware version reporting via Ethtool GDRVINFO Michael Chan
2016-02-25 8:19 ` [PATCH net-next 09/10] bnxt_en: Refactor _hwrm_send_message() Michael Chan
2016-02-25 8:19 ` [PATCH net-next 10/10] bnxt_en: Add hwrm_send_message_silent() Michael Chan
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