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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:47:59 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Saeed Mahameed <saeed@kernel.org>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>, Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>,
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 netdev@vger.kernel.org, Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>, Adithya
 Jayachandran <ajayachandra@nvidia.com>, Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH mlx5-next] {rdma,net}/mlx5: Query vports mac address
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On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 18:40:55 -0700 Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> Before this patch during either switchdev or legacy mode enablement we
> cleared the mac address of vports between changes. This change allows us
> to preserve the vports mac address between eswitch mode changes.

Not knowing what exactly a vport is I can't tell whether this preserves
MAC addrs of reprs, the uplink, something else?