From patchwork Mon Apr 11 17:23:25 2016 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Luis Henriques X-Patchwork-Id: 608965 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3qkH6l1nHCz9t49; Tue, 12 Apr 2016 03:26:39 +1000 (AEST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1apfbg-0004iQ-5H; Mon, 11 Apr 2016 17:26:36 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1apfYe-0003L5-JN for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Mon, 11 Apr 2016 17:23:28 +0000 Received: from 1.general.henrix.uk.vpn ([10.172.192.212] helo=localhost) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1apfYd-0004TD-Aj; Mon, 11 Apr 2016 17:23:27 +0000 From: Luis Henriques To: Dmitri Epshtein Subject: [3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "net: mvneta: enable change MAC address when interface is up" has been added to the 3.16.y-ckt tree Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 18:23:25 +0100 Message-Id: <1460395405-14889-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 3.16 Cc: Gregory CLEMENT , kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com, "David S. Miller" X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled net: mvneta: enable change MAC address when interface is up to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt27. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Luis ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From f59cf9b50a9ef33341ad5e9a1332da769d0e531a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dmitri Epshtein Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 18:44:18 +0100 Subject: net: mvneta: enable change MAC address when interface is up commit 928b6519afeb2a5e2dc61154380b545ed66c476a upstream. Function eth_prepare_mac_addr_change() is called as part of MAC address change. This function check if interface is running. To enable change MAC address when interface is running: IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE flag must be set to dev->priv_flags field Fixes: c5aff18204da ("net: mvneta: driver for Marvell Armada 370/XP network unit") Signed-off-by: Dmitri Epshtein Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques --- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c index 0830d23f01ae..99a69490f39b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c @@ -3078,7 +3078,7 @@ static int mvneta_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) dev->features = NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_TSO; dev->hw_features |= dev->features; dev->vlan_features |= dev->features; - dev->priv_flags |= IFF_UNICAST_FLT; + dev->priv_flags |= IFF_UNICAST_FLT | IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE; dev->gso_max_segs = MVNETA_MAX_TSO_SEGS; err = register_netdev(dev);