From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52362) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TtJO5-0007as-PB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:45:47 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TtJO0-0005mj-Tt for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:45:45 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:30745) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TtJO0-0005md-Ml for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:45:40 -0500 From: akong@redhat.com Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:45:39 +0800 Message-Id: <1357829141-25455-1-git-send-email-akong@redhat.com> Subject: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] make mac programming for virtio net more robust List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: kvm@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au Cc: mst@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.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. 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 | 105 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h | 8 ++- 2 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-) -- 1.7.11.7