Re: ixgbe driver does not support MAC address change

I have download the driver 4.1.1.1. The code is a little different, but the logic is the same. When Guest OS change the MAC of a NIC, a message is sent from VF, and the message handler calls function ixgbe_set_vf_mac_addr(), which always denies MAC modification.  Look at the following code in driver 4.1.1.1

staticint ixgbe_set_vf_mac_addr(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter, u32 *msgbuf, u32 vf)

{

  u8 *new_mac = ((u8 *)(&msgbuf[1]));

if (!is_valid_ether_addr(new_mac)) {

  e_warn(drv, "VF %d attempted to set invalid mac\n", vf);

  return -1;

  }

if (memcmp(adapter->vfinfo[vf].vf_mac_addresses, new_mac, ETH_ALEN)) {

  u8 *pm = adapter->vfinfo[vf].vf_mac_addresses;

  e_warn(drv,

        "VF %d attempted to set a new MAC address but it already has an administratively set MAC address %2.2X:%2.2X:%2.2X:%2.2X:%2.2X:%2.2X\n",

        vf, pm[0], pm[1], pm[2], pm[3], pm[4], pm[5]);

  e_warn(drv, "Check the VF driver and if it is not using the correct MAC address you may need to reload the VF driver\n");

  return -1;

  }

  ixgbe_passthru_config(adapter, vf, VMK_CFG_MAC_CHANGED,

  (void*)new_mac);

return0;

}