Commit f95633ad authored by Mark Bloch's avatar Mark Bloch Committed by Paolo Abeni
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net/mlx5e: Allow setting MAC address of representors 



A representor netdev does not correspond to real hardware that needs to
be updated when setting the MAC address. The default eth_mac_addr() is
sufficient for simply updating the netdev's MAC address with validation.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDragos Tatulea <dtatulea@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSimon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1747898036-1121904-1-git-send-email-tariqt@nvidia.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
parent 08ae62e1

drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c

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@@ -804,6 +804,7 @@ static const struct net_device_ops mlx5e_netdev_ops_rep = { 
	.ndo_stop                = mlx5e_rep_close,

	.ndo_start_xmit          = mlx5e_xmit,

	.ndo_setup_tc            = mlx5e_rep_setup_tc,

	.ndo_set_mac_address	 = eth_mac_addr,

	.ndo_get_stats64         = mlx5e_rep_get_stats,

	.ndo_has_offload_stats	 = mlx5e_rep_has_offload_stats,

	.ndo_get_offload_stats	 = mlx5e_rep_get_offload_stats,