[dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] net/i40e: fix setting of MAC address on i40evf

[Zhang, Helin]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Xing, Beilei
> Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2018 3:40 PM
> To: Olivier Matz; dev at dpdk.org; Wu, Jingjing
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] net/i40e: fix setting of MAC address on
> i40evf
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Olivier Matz [mailto:olivier.matz at 6wind.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 3, 2018 9:34 PM
> > To: dev at dpdk.org; Wu, Jingjing <jingjing.wu at intel.com>; Xing, Beilei
> > <beilei.xing at intel.com>
> > Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> > Subject: [PATCH v2] net/i40e: fix setting of MAC address on i40evf
> >
> > When setting the MAC address, the ethdev layer copies the new mac
> > address in dev->data->mac_addrs[0] before calling the dev_ops.
> >
> > Therefore, "is_same_ether_addr(mac_addr, dev->data->mac_addrs)" was
> > always true, and the MAC was never set. Remove this test to fix the issue.
> >
> > Fixes: 943c2d899a0c ("net/i40e: set VF MAC from VF")
> > Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Beilei Xing <beilei.xing at intel.com>, thanks for the fix.
Applied to dpdk-next-net-intel, thanks!

/Helin