On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 23:57:15 -0500 Lijun Pan wrote:
> After mac address change request completes successfully, the new mac
> address need to be saved to adapter->mac_addr as well as
> netdev->dev_addr. Otherwise, adapter->mac_addr still holds old
> data.
Do you observe this in practice? Can you show us which path in
particular you see this happen on?
AFAICS ibmvnic_set_mac() copies the new MAC addr into adapter->mac_addr
before making a request.
If anything is wrong here is that it does so regardless if MAC addr
is valid.
> Fixes: 62740e97881c("net/ibmvnic: Update MAC address settings after adapter
> reset")
^
missing space here
> Signed-off-by: Lijun Pan <l...@linux.ibm.com>
