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authorRon Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com>2009-11-17 11:10:40 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-11-18 05:03:28 -0800
commit63ae93a19094d88c8ca62543586b20e3a7ff7637 (patch)
tree31499f6b1df31a39ab1c8414c37b9d607e00ee15 /drivers
parentf99189b186f3922ede4fa33c02f6edc735b8c981 (diff)
qlge: Bonding fix for mode 6.
Allow MAC address to be changed even if device is not up. Signed-off-by: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c3
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c b/drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c
index e2ee47d9bca..7692299e782 100644
--- a/drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c
@@ -3951,9 +3951,6 @@ static int qlge_set_mac_address(struct net_device *ndev, void *p)
struct sockaddr *addr = p;
int status;
- if (netif_running(ndev))
- return -EBUSY;
-
if (!is_valid_ether_addr(addr->sa_data))
return -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
memcpy(ndev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data, ndev->addr_len);