RE: [PATCH v6] i40e: Look up MAC address in Open Firmware or IDPROM

[Nelson, Shannon]

> From: Sowmini Varadhan [mailto:sowmini.varadhan@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 3:21 PM
> 
> 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.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2, v3: Andy Shevchenko comments
> v4: Shannon Nelson review: explicitly set up mac filters before
> register_netdev
> v5: Shannon Nelson code style comments
> v6: Shannon Nelson code style comments
> 
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c |   83
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 82 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 

Acked-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@xxxxxxxxx>


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