[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 1/3] ethdev: fix adding invalid MAC addr

Yuanhan Liu yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com
Wed May 3 03:46:01 CEST 2017


On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 08:44:23PM +0800, Wei Dai wrote:
> Some customers find adding MAC addr to VF sometimes can fail,
> but it is still stored in dev->data->mac_addrs[ ]. So this
> can lead to some errors that assumes the non-zero entry in
> dev->data->mac_addrs[ ] is valid.
> Following acknowledgements are from specific NIC PMD
> maintainer for their managing part.
> 
> Fixes: af75078fece3 ("first public release")


> Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Just a note, this patch changes API. It should not be backported to a
stable/LTS release, even though it fixes something.

	--yliu


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