From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nguyen, Anthony L Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:48:17 +0000 Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next v1] iavf: Add waiting for response from PF in set mac In-Reply-To: <20220124154553.29782-1-mateusz.palczewski@intel.com> References: <20220124154553.29782-1-mateusz.palczewski@intel.com> Message-ID: <028c789af62a63fbb64d96706ca0e36a57cbec39.camel@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: intel-wired-lan@osuosl.org List-ID: On Mon, 2022-01-24 at 16:45 +0100, Mateusz Palczewski wrote: > Make iavf_set_mac synchronous by waiting for a response > from a PF. Without this iavf_set_mac is always returning > success even though set_mac can be rejected by a PF. > This ensures that when set_mac exits netdev MAC is updated. > This is needed for sending ARPs with correct MAC after > changing VF's MAC. This is also needed by bonding module. This sounds very much like this patch [1] or is this resolving a different issue? > Signed-off-by: Sylwester Dziedziuch > Signed-off-by: Mateusz Palczewski > --- [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/? id=c5c922b3e09b6e5eeb9cd2b1122f3e49c0bf2283