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From: "Wang, Liang-min" <liang-min.wang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] ethdev: add apis to support access
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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 20:58:15 +0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:stephen@networkplumber.org]
> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 9:40 AM
> To: Wang, Liang-min
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 1/4] ethdev: add apis to support access
> device info
>=20
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 18:22:12 -0400
> Liang-Min Larry Wang <liang-min.wang@intel.com> wrote:
>=20
> >  int
> > +rte_eth_dev_default_mac_addr_set(uint8_t port_id, struct ether_addr
> *addr)
> > +{
> > +	struct rte_eth_dev *dev;
> > +
> > +	if (!rte_eth_dev_is_valid_port(port_id)) {
> > +		PMD_DEBUG_TRACE("Invalid port_id=3D%d\n", port_id);
> > +		return -ENODEV;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	if (!is_valid_assigned_ether_addr(addr))
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > +	dev =3D &rte_eth_devices[port_id];
> > +	FUNC_PTR_OR_ERR_RET(*dev->dev_ops->mac_addr_set, -
> ENOTSUP);
> > +
> > +	/* Update default address in NIC data structure */
> > +	ether_addr_copy(addr, &dev->data->mac_addrs[0]);
> > +
> > +	(*dev->dev_ops->mac_addr_set)(dev, addr);
>=20
> Would it be possible to directly set mac_addr[0] if device does not
> provide a device driver specific override?

I would yield this question to Konstantin since this information is used by=
 get mac addr API.