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Commit 108805fc authored by Saeed Mahameed's avatar Saeed Mahameed Committed by David S. Miller
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net/mlx5e: Assign random MAC address if needed 



Under SRIOV there might be a case where VFs are loaded
without pre-assigned MAC address. In this case, the VF
will randomize its own MAC.  This will address the case
of administrator not assigning MAC to the VF through
the PF OS APIs and keep udev happy.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 9bd0a185

drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c

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@@ -2103,6 +2103,11 @@ static void mlx5e_set_netdev_dev_addr(struct net_device *netdev) 
	struct mlx5e_priv *priv = netdev_priv(netdev);



	mlx5_query_nic_vport_mac_address(priv->mdev, 0, netdev->dev_addr);

	if (is_zero_ether_addr(netdev->dev_addr) &&

	    !MLX5_CAP_GEN(priv->mdev, vport_group_manager)) {

		eth_hw_addr_random(netdev);

		mlx5_core_info(priv->mdev, "Assigned random MAC address %pM\n", netdev->dev_addr);

	}

}



static void mlx5e_build_netdev(struct net_device *netdev)

drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/mlx5_core.h

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@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ do { \ 
		(__dev)->priv.name, __func__, __LINE__, current->pid,	\

		##__VA_ARGS__)



#define mlx5_core_info(__dev, format, ...)				\

	dev_info(&(__dev)->pdev->dev, format, ##__VA_ARGS__)



enum {

	MLX5_CMD_DATA, /* print command payload only */

	MLX5_CMD_TIME, /* print command execution time */