From: Vivien Didelot <vivien.dide...@savoirfairelinux.com> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 14:18:04 -0400
> An Ethernet switch may support having a MAC address, which can be used > as the switch's source address in transmitted full-duplex Pause frames. > > If a DSA switch supports the related .set_addr operation, the DSA core > sets the master's MAC address on the switch. > > This won't make sense anymore in a multi-CPU ports system, because there > won't be a unique master device assigned to a switch tree. > > Moreover this operation is confusing because it makes the user think > that it could be used to program the switch with the MAC address of the > CPU/management port such that MAC address learning can be disabled on > said port, but in fact, that's not how it is currently used. > > To fix this, assign a random MAC address at setup time in the mv88e6060 > and mv88e6xxx drivers before removing .set_addr completely from DSA. > > Changes in v3: > - include fix for mv88e6060 switch MAC address setter. > > Changes in v2: > - remove .set_addr implementation from drivers and use a random MAC. Series applied,thanks Vivien.
