[PATCH net v2 2/4] net: mvneta: enable change MAC address when interface is up

Gregory CLEMENT gregory.clement at free-electrons.com
Sat Mar 12 09:44:18 PST 2016


From: Dmitri Epshtein <dima at marvell.com>

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")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dmitri Epshtein <dima at marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement at free-electrons.com>
---
 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 8dc7df2edff6..2ee05cebea75 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c
@@ -3721,7 +3721,7 @@ 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);
-- 
2.5.0




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