Re: [PATCH] hv_netvsc: Mark VF as slave before exposing it to user-mode

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2023 15:50:50 -0700
longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 	list_for_each_entry(ndev_ctx, &netvsc_dev_list, list) {
>  		ndev = hv_get_drvdata(ndev_ctx->device_ctx);
> -		if (ether_addr_equal(vf_netdev->perm_addr, ndev->perm_addr)) {
> -			netdev_notice(vf_netdev,
> -				      "falling back to mac addr based matching\n");
> +		if (ether_addr_equal(vf_netdev->perm_addr, ndev->perm_addr) ||
> +		    ether_addr_equal(vf_netdev->dev_addr, ndev->perm_addr))

This part looks like unrelated change.
The VF mac address shouldn't change, but if it did don't look at i.