[PATCH 26/28] net: aquantia: Allow live mac address changes
Kai-Heng Feng
kai.heng.feng at canonical.com
Thu Mar 29 10:06:41 UTC 2018
From: Igor Russkikh <igor.russkikh at aquantia.com>
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1759303
There is nothing prevents us from changing MAC on the running interface.
Allow this with ndev priv flag.
Signed-off-by: Igor Russkikh <igor.russkikh at aquantia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
(cherry picked from commit 3e9a545131723ff12fe4304245c222157f0e4622)
Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng at canonical.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/aq_nic.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/aq_nic.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/aq_nic.c
index ebbaf63eaf47..34120d5b7c03 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/aq_nic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/aq_nic.c
@@ -247,6 +247,8 @@ void aq_nic_ndev_init(struct aq_nic_s *self)
self->ndev->hw_features |= aq_hw_caps->hw_features;
self->ndev->features = aq_hw_caps->hw_features;
self->ndev->priv_flags = aq_hw_caps->hw_priv_flags;
+ self->ndev->priv_flags |= IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE;
+
self->ndev->mtu = aq_nic_cfg->mtu - ETH_HLEN;
self->ndev->max_mtu = aq_hw_caps->mtu - ETH_FCS_LEN - ETH_HLEN;
--
2.15.1
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