Acked-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nel...@intel.com
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 1:28 PM, David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varad...@oracle.com>
> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 15:06:34 -0500
>
>> This is the i40e equivalent of commit c762dff24c06 ("ixgbe: Look up MAC
>> address in Open Firmware or IDPROM").
>>
>> As with that fix, attempt to look up the MAC address in Open Firmware
>> on systems that support it, and use IDPROM on SPARC if no OF address
>> is found.
>>
>> In the case of the i40e there is an assumption that the default mac
>> address has already been set up as the primary mac filter on probe,
>> so if this filter is obtained from the Open Firmware or IDPROM, an
>> explicit write is needed via i40e_aq_mac_address_write() and
>> i40e_aq_add_macvlan() invocation.
>>
>> The I40E_FLAG_PF_MAC flag in the platform-private i40e_pf structure
>> tracks whether a platform-specific mac address was found, in which
>> case calls to i40e_aq_mac_address_write() and i40e_aq_add_macvlan()
>> will be triggered.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.peter...@oracle.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varad...@oracle.com>
>
> This looks good to me.
>
> Once this goes in I'll add my generic MAC stuff to net-next and then
> we can convert the various Intel drivers to use it.
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