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: 538da7a1cad2 ("net: add rte prefix to ether functions")
Signed-off-by: SteveX Yang <stevex.y...@intel.com>
---
drivers/net/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c
index 349c82cae..f16aff531 100644
--- a/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c
@@ -978,9 +978,6 @@ iavf_dev_set_default_mac_addr(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
old_addr = (struct rte_ether_addr *)hw->mac.addr;
perm_addr = (struct rte_ether_addr *)hw->mac.perm_addr;
- if (rte_is_same_ether_addr(mac_addr, old_addr))
- return 0;
-
/* If the MAC address is configured by host, skip the setting */
if (rte_is_valid_assigned_ether_addr(perm_addr))
return -EPERM;
--
2.17.1
