[PATCH v4 0/3] make mac programming for virtio net more robust

akong at redhat.com
2013-01-20T02:43:06Z

Currenly mac is programmed byte by byte. This means that we
have an intermediate step where mac is wrong.

Third patch introduced a new vq control command to set mac
address, it's atomic.

V2: check return of sending command, delay eth_mac_addr()
V3: restore software address when fail to set hardware address
V4: split eth_mac_addr, fix error handle

Amos Kong (2):
  move virtnet_send_command() above virtnet_set_mac_address()
  virtio-net: introduce a new control to set macaddr

Stefan Hajnoczi (1):
  net: split eth_mac_addr for better error handling

 drivers/net/virtio_net.c        | 110 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 include/linux/etherdevice.h     |   2 +
 include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h |   8 ++-
 net/ethernet/eth.c              |  43 +++++++++++++---
 4 files changed, 107 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)

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