This patch provides a basic function to allow a lower device to disable
macvlan offload if it was previously enabled on a given macvlan. The idea
here is to allow for recovery from failure should the lowerdev run out of
resources.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.du...@intel.com>
---
include/linux/if_macvlan.h | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/if_macvlan.h b/include/linux/if_macvlan.h
index 0221390..2e55e4c 100644
--- a/include/linux/if_macvlan.h
+++ b/include/linux/if_macvlan.h
@@ -97,4 +97,12 @@ static inline bool macvlan_supports_dest_filter(struct
net_device *dev)
macvlan->mode == MACVLAN_MODE_VEPA ||
macvlan->mode == MACVLAN_MODE_BRIDGE;
}
+
+static inline int macvlan_release_l2fw_offload(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+ struct macvlan_dev *macvlan = netdev_priv(dev);
+
+ macvlan->accel_priv = NULL;
+ return dev_uc_add(macvlan->lowerdev, dev->dev_addr);
+}
#endif /* _LINUX_IF_MACVLAN_H */
