On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 14:25 -0700, Haiyang Zhang wrote:
> This adds support for setting synthetic NIC MAC address from within Linux
> guests. Before using this feature, the option "spoofing of MAC address"
> should be enabled at the Hyper-V manager / Settings of the synthetic
> NIC.
[...]
> +int rndis_filter_set_device_mac(struct hv_device *hdev, char *mac)
> +{
[...]
> + t = wait_for_completion_timeout(&request->wait_event, 5*HZ);
> + if (t == 0) {
> + netdev_err(ndev, "timeout before we got a set response...\n");
> + /*
> + * can't put_rndis_request, since we may still receive a
> + * send-completion.
> + */
> + return -EBUSY;
> + } else {
> + set_complete = &request->response_msg.msg.set_complete;
> + if (set_complete->status != RNDIS_STATUS_SUCCESS)
> + ret = -EINVAL;
[...]
Is there a specific error code that indicates the hypervisor is
configured not to allow MAC address changes? If so, shouldn't that be
translated to return EPERM rather than EINVAL?
Ben.
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