Acked-by: Shannon Nelson <[email protected]
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 1:28 PM, David Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Sowmini Varadhan <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 15:06:34 -0500 > >> This is the i40e equivalent of commit c762dff24c06 ("ixgbe: Look up MAC >> address in Open Firmware or IDPROM"). >> >> As with that fix, attempt to look up the MAC address in Open Firmware >> on systems that support it, and use IDPROM on SPARC if no OF address >> is found. >> >> In the case of the i40e there is an assumption that the default mac >> address has already been set up as the primary mac filter on probe, >> so if this filter is obtained from the Open Firmware or IDPROM, an >> explicit write is needed via i40e_aq_mac_address_write() and >> i40e_aq_add_macvlan() invocation. >> >> The I40E_FLAG_PF_MAC flag in the platform-private i40e_pf structure >> tracks whether a platform-specific mac address was found, in which >> case calls to i40e_aq_mac_address_write() and i40e_aq_add_macvlan() >> will be triggered. >> >> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]> >> Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan <[email protected]> > > This looks good to me. > > Once this goes in I'll add my generic MAC stuff to net-next and then > we can convert the various Intel drivers to use it. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [email protected] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- ============================================== Mr. Shannon Nelson Network Division, Intel Corp. [email protected] I don't speak for Intel Parents can't afford to be squeamish -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
