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| author |   Petr Machata <petrm@mellanox.com> | 2018-12-13 11:54:30 +0000 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2018-12-13 18:41:38 -0800 |
| commit | 3a37a9636cf3a1af2621a33f7eef8a2a3da81030 (patch) | |
| tree | 39d632745b9834d8297856b8900b793ec43c45d7 /drivers/net/hyperv | |
| parent | Merge tag 'mlx5e-updates-2018-12-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/saeed/linux (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-3a37a9636cf3a1af2621a33f7eef8a2a3da81030.tar.xz linux-dev-3a37a9636cf3a1af2621a33f7eef8a2a3da81030.zip | |
net: dev: Add extack argument to dev_set_mac_address()
A follow-up patch will add a notifier type NETDEV_PRE_CHANGEADDR, which
allows vetoing of MAC address changes. One prominent path to that
notification is through dev_set_mac_address(). Therefore give this
function an extack argument, so that it can be packed together with the
notification. Thus a textual reason for rejection (or a warning) can be
communicated back to the user.
Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <petrm@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/hyperv')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c index 18b5584d6377..91ed15ea5883 100644 --- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c +++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c @@ -1247,7 +1247,7 @@ static int netvsc_set_mac_addr(struct net_device *ndev, void *p) return -ENODEV; if (vf_netdev) { - err = dev_set_mac_address(vf_netdev, addr); + err = dev_set_mac_address(vf_netdev, addr, NULL); if (err) return err; } @@ -1258,7 +1258,7 @@ static int netvsc_set_mac_addr(struct net_device *ndev, void *p) } else if (vf_netdev) { /* rollback change on VF */ memcpy(addr->sa_data, ndev->dev_addr, ETH_ALEN); - dev_set_mac_address(vf_netdev, addr); + dev_set_mac_address(vf_netdev, addr, NULL); } return err; |