Thanks for your patches! On Wed, Nov 05, 2025 at 04:01:41PM +0800, Cindy Lu wrote: > Add logic in mlx5_vdpa_set_attr() to ensure the VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC > feature bit is properly set only when the device is not yet in > the DRIVER_OK (running) state. > > This makes the MAC address visible in the output of: > > vdpa dev config show -jp > > when the device is created without an initial MAC address. > So when the random MAC address is assigned it is not currently shown? I don't fully understand the motivation.
> Signed-off-by: Cindy Lu <[email protected]> > --- > drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c | 6 ++++++ > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c > b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c > index 82034efb74fc..e38aa3a335fc 100644 > --- a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c > +++ b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c > @@ -4057,6 +4057,12 @@ static int mlx5_vdpa_set_attr(struct vdpa_mgmt_dev > *v_mdev, struct vdpa_device * > ndev = to_mlx5_vdpa_ndev(mvdev); > mdev = mvdev->mdev; > config = &ndev->config; > + if (!(ndev->mvdev.status & VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK)) { > + ndev->mvdev.mlx_features |= BIT_ULL(VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC); > + } else { > + mlx5_vdpa_warn(mvdev, "device running, skip updating MAC\n"); > + return err; The err is EOPNOTSUPP. Is this the right error? > + } > Why is this block not under the reslock? Thanks, Dragos

