[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/6] net/tap: keep kernel-assigned MAC address

[Pascal Mazon]

There's no point in having a different internal MAC address than the one
provided by the kernel when creating the netdevice.

Signed-off-by: Pascal Mazon <pascal.ma...@6wind.com>
---
 drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c | 22 ----------------------
 1 file changed, 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c b/drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c
index 3d15031008c6..f8b07b4a8fa1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c
@@ -552,28 +552,6 @@ pmd_mac_address(int fd, struct rte_eth_dev *dev, struct 
ether_addr *addr)
                return -1;
        }
 
-       /* Set the host based MAC address to this special MAC format */
-       ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data[0] = 'T';
-       ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data[1] = 'a';
-       ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data[2] = 'p';
-       ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data[3] = '-';
-       ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data[4] = dev->data->port_id;
-       ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data[5] = dev->data->numa_node;
-       if (ioctl(fd, SIOCSIFHWADDR, &ifr) == -1) {
-               RTE_LOG(ERR, PMD, "%s: ioctl failed (SIOCSIFHWADDR) (%s)\n",
-                       dev->data->name, ifr.ifr_name);
-               return -1;
-       }
-
-       /* Set the local application MAC address, needs to be different then
-        * the host based MAC address.
-        */
-       ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data[0] = 'd';
-       ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data[1] = 'n';
-       ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data[2] = 'e';
-       ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data[3] = 't';
-       ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data[4] = dev->data->port_id;
-       ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data[5] = dev->data->numa_node;
        rte_memcpy(addr, ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data, ETH_ALEN);
 
        return 0;
-- 
2.8.0.rc0