[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: fix setting of MAC address

[Olivier Matz]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 02:43:59PM +0100, Olivier Matz wrote:
> I've walked through the PMDs as suggested by Andrew, and there was
> indeed some conflicts with the initial patch. I've just submitted the
> patch for vmxnet3 [1] and bnxt [2].
> 
> But there is still an issue with the qede driver, that overwrites the
> MAC address in dev->data by the previous one if it cannot be set. It
> seems it's the only driver that does this in error case, but anyway,
> this behavior will be broken by the initial patch.
> 
> So I submitted a v2 that only changes the behavior for i40evf [3].
> 
> I propose to include these 3 patches for 18.02, and announce an ABI
> change for 18.05 to add a return value to dev_ops->mac_addr_set() and
> move the ether_addr_copy() after the callback, only in case of success.
> 
> Any opinions?
> 
> 
> [1] https://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/32855/
> [2] https://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/32855/
> [3] https://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/32855/

Sorry:

[1] https://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/32855/
[2] https://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/32856/
[3] https://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/32857/