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authorShreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>2011-01-14 14:59:31 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-01-15 21:21:11 -0800
commitf9f2502626133e33599578a16ed54435733f062c (patch)
treedc0d1879d4f7a1a4fc7c9659e2c95d71fc7272b7 /drivers/net
parenta53255d38e6d08453373ac0b7256d40395b202ba (diff)
vmxnet3: Preserve the MAC address configured by ifconfig
While activating the device get it's MAC address from netdev. This will allow the MAC address configured using ifconfig to persist through the reset. Signed-off-by: Shreyas N Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c
index 562bdbb0150..89bcee8ee3d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ static atomic_t devices_found;
static int enable_mq = 1;
static int irq_share_mode;
+static void
+vmxnet3_write_mac_addr(struct vmxnet3_adapter *adapter, u8 *mac);
+
/*
* Enable/Disable the given intr
*/
@@ -2168,6 +2171,8 @@ vmxnet3_setup_driver_shared(struct vmxnet3_adapter *adapter)
/* rx filter settings */
devRead->rxFilterConf.rxMode = 0;
vmxnet3_restore_vlan(adapter);
+ vmxnet3_write_mac_addr(adapter, adapter->netdev->dev_addr);
+
/* the rest are already zeroed */
}