Laurent Vivier
2023-Jan-24 07:19 UTC
[PATCH 1/4] virtio_net: notify MAC address change on device initialization
On 1/24/23 04:31, Jakub Kicinski wrote:> On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 15:47:08 +0200 Eli Cohen wrote: >>> @@ -3956,6 +3958,18 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev) >>> pr_debug("virtnet: registered device %s with %d RX and TX vq's\n", >>> dev->name, max_queue_pairs); >>> >>> + /* a random MAC address has been assigned, notify the device */ >>> + if (dev->addr_assign_type == NET_ADDR_RANDOM && >> Maybe it's better to not count on addr_assign_type and use a local >> variable to indicate that virtnet_probe assigned random MAC. > > +1, FWIW >v2 sent, but I rely on virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC) to know if the MAC address is provided by the device or not: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230123120022.2364889-2-lvivier at redhat.com/T/#me9211516e12771001e0346818255c9fb48a2bf4a Thanks, Laurent