ACK: [B/C][PATCH 0/2] Add support for MAC address pass through on RTL8153-BD

[You-Sheng Yang]

Acked-By: You-Sheng Yang <vicamo.yang at canonical.com>

On 2019/3/22 2:13 PM, Wen-chien Jesse Sung wrote:
> BugLink: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1821276
> 
> == SRU Justification ==
> 
> * Impact:
> RTL8153-BD is used in Dell DA300 type-C dongle and should be added to
> the whitelist of devices to activate MAC address passthrough.
> 
> * Fix:
> Two commits in upstream need to be applied in order to support this
> feature. Both of them are in 5.0.
> 
> commit 8e29d23e28ee7fb995a00c1ca7e1a4caf5070b12
> Author: David Chen david.chen7 at dell.com
> Date: Sat Feb 16 17:16:42 2019 +0800
> 
> r8152: Add support for MAC address pass through on RTL8153-BD
> 
> commit c286909fe5458f69e533c845b757fd2c35064d26
> Author: David Chen david.chen7 at dell.com
> Date: Wed Feb 20 13:47:19 2019 +0800
> 
> r8152: Fix an error on RTL8153-BD MAC Address Passthrough support
> 
> * Testcase:
> BIOS settings must be properly set before verifying.
> 1. [Settings][POST Behavior][MAC Address Pass-Through]:
>    Passthrough MAC Address
> 2. There should be two MAC addresses in BIOS settings,
>    ex: [Settings][General][System Information]
> Attach the dongle and see if MAC passthrough works.
> 
> * Risk of Regression:
> Clean cherry-pick from mainline, and only add specific hardware to
> the whitelist. Risk is low.
> 
> 
> David Chen (2):
>   r8152: Add support for MAC address pass through on RTL8153-BD
>   r8152: Fix an error on RTL8153-BD MAC Address Passthrough support
> 
>  drivers/net/usb/r8152.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 

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