[Qemu-devel] [QEMU PATCH v3] virtio-net: introduce a new macaddr control

2013-01-17 Thread akong
From: Amos Kong In virtio-net guest driver, currently we write MAC address to pci config space byte by byte, this means that we have an intermediate step where mac is wrong. This patch introduced a new control command to set MAC address, it's atomic. VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR is a new feature b

Re: [Qemu-devel] [QEMU PATCH v3] virtio-net: introduce a new macaddr control

2013-01-17 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 06:30:46PM +0800, ak...@redhat.com wrote: > From: Amos Kong > > In virtio-net guest driver, currently we write MAC address to > pci config space byte by byte, this means that we have an > intermediate step where mac is wrong. This patch introduced > a new control command t