[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 6/6] net/vmxnet3: preserve configured MAC address

Charles (Chas) Williams ciwillia at brocade.com
Thu Jun 15 14:17:42 CEST 2017


From: George Wilkie <gwilkie at brocade.com>

When starting a vmxnet3 device, it is always writing the permanent MAC
address, even if a different MAC address was configured.  Write from
the device data instead which holds the current one.

Signed-off-by: George Wilkie <gwilkie at brocade.com>
Acked-by: Shrikrishna Khare <skhare at vmware.com>
---
 drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ethdev.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ethdev.c
index e8cbc85..265de35 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ethdev.c
@@ -734,7 +734,7 @@ vmxnet3_setup_driver_shared(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 	vmxnet3_dev_vlan_offload_set(dev,
 				     ETH_VLAN_STRIP_MASK | ETH_VLAN_FILTER_MASK);
 
-	vmxnet3_write_mac(hw, hw->perm_addr);
+	vmxnet3_write_mac(hw, dev->data->mac_addrs->addr_bytes);
 
 	return VMXNET3_SUCCESS;
 }
-- 
2.1.4



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