From patchwork Tue Dec 11 01:16:00 2012 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: stephen hemminger X-Patchwork-Id: 205112 X-Patchwork-Delegate: davem@davemloft.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4F2C2C0315 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:17:40 +1100 (EST) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751625Ab2LKBRi (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:17:38 -0500 Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:57096 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751402Ab2LKBRh (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:17:37 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.vyatta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 348CD144001E; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:17:37 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at tahiti.vyatta.com Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.vyatta.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id lxWdqNr4B2bf; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:17:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from nehalam.home.lan (static-50-53-80-93.bvtn.or.frontiernet.net [50.53.80.93]) by mail.vyatta.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5AB20144001A; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:17:36 -0800 (PST) From: Stephen Hemminger To: davem@davemloft.net Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jasowang@redhat.com, Stephen Hemminger Subject: [PATCH] tun: allow setting ethernet addresss while running Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:16:00 -0800 Message-Id: <1355188560-8388-1-git-send-email-shemminger@vyatta.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.10.4 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org This is a pure software device, and ok with live address change. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger --- drivers/net/tun.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c index 14a0454..2ac2164 100644 --- a/drivers/net/tun.c +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c @@ -849,6 +849,7 @@ static void tun_net_init(struct net_device *dev) /* Ethernet TAP Device */ ether_setup(dev); dev->priv_flags &= ~IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING; + dev->priv_flags |= IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE; eth_hw_addr_random(dev);