[PATCH v7 2/4] net/iavf: fix duplicate MAC addresses install

[Burakov, Anatoly]

On 9/14/2026 10:17 AM, David Marchand wrote:
> On port restart, all MAC addresses get pushed *twice* to the hardware,
> once by the driver and once by the eth_dev_mac_restore() in ethdev.
> 
> On the other hand, MAC address filters are reset in the hardware
> by the PF only when a VF reset is triggered.
> 
> Strictly speaking, the mac restore on port (re)start is unneeded,
> if no VF reset happened, so we can announce to ethdev that no mac
> restoration is needed via a get_restore_flags callback.
> 
> Then, move the mac restoration to the VF reset handler.
> 
> Fixes: 3d42086def30 ("net/iavf: preserve MAC address with i40e PF Linux driver")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
> ---

(with Ciara's suggested fix)

Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>

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Thanks,
Anatoly