Commit 17413a80 authored Jun 04, 2014 by Greg Rose Committed by Jeff Kirsher Jun 24, 2014

i40e: Stop the VF device after setting its MAC address



If the host VMM administrator has changed the VF device's MAC address then
the i40e driver needs to halt the VF device so that the administrator will
be forced to reload the VF driver.  This will cause the VF driver to start
using the newly assigned MAC address.  This brings the i40e driver into
conformance with operational characteristics of other Intel SR-IOV
featured drivers.

Change-ID: Ic7242cceb8287dd2cb72fb1f3166a032a28bf88a
Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>

parent 5433ba36

drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c

+2 −0

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		@@ -2077,6 +2077,8 @@ int i40e_ndo_set_vf_mac(struct net_device netdev, int vf_id, u8 mac)
		}
		ether_addr_copy(vf->default_lan_addr.addr, mac);
		vf->pf_set_mac = true;
		/* Force the VF driver stop so it has to reload with new MAC address */
		i40e_vc_disable_vf(pf, vf);
		dev_info(&pf->pdev->dev, "Reload the VF driver to make this change effective.\n");
		ret = 0;

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