[PATCH 20.11 V2 1/2] net/hns3: fix residual MAC after setting default MAC

[Xueming(Steven) Li]

On Sat, 2021-11-13 at 17:17 +0800, Huisong Li wrote:
> [ upstream commit 19e67d8ebced5cb12829f75c70e6c497b5925e82 ]
> 
> This problem occurs in the following scenarios:
> 1) reset is encountered when the adapter is running.
> 2) set a new default MAC address
> 
> After the above two steps, the old default MAC address should be not
> take effect. But the current behavior is contrary to that. This is due
> to the change of the "default_addr_setted" in hw->mac from 'true' to
> 'false' after the reset. As a result, the old MAC address is not removed
> when the new default MAC address is set. This variable controls whether
> to delete the old default MAC address when setting the default MAC
> address. It is only used when the mac_addr_set API is called for the
> first time. In fact, when a unicast MAC address is deleted, if the
> address isn't in the MAC address table, the driver doesn't return
> failure. So this patch remove the redundant and troublesome variables to
> resolve this problem.
> 
> Fixes: 7d7f9f80bbfb ("net/hns3: support MAC address related operations")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Huisong Li <lihuisong at huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Min Hu (Connor) <humin29 at huawei.com>
> ---

Applied to 20.11.4 list.

One trailing tab removed, please run checkpatch next time :)

Best Regards,
Xueming Li