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authorMatt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>2013-01-22 08:08:25 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-01-23 13:42:20 -0500
commit4a633a602c26497b8285a202830829d3be007c7b (patch)
tree7fd0f9233146d859d6c1e139ab55dc214777cbc7
parente39363a9def53dd4086be107dc8b3ebca09f045d (diff)
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xen-netback: allow changing the MAC address of the interface
Sometimes it is useful to be able to change the MAC address of the interface for netback devices. For example, when using ebtables it may be useful to be able to distinguish traffic from different interfaces without depending on the interface name. Reported-by: Nikita Borzykh <sample.n@gmail.com> Reported-by: Paul Harvey <stockingpaul@hotmail.com> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
index b7d41f8..f733cae 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
@@ -238,6 +238,8 @@ static const struct net_device_ops xenvif_netdev_ops = {
.ndo_stop = xenvif_close,
.ndo_change_mtu = xenvif_change_mtu,
.ndo_fix_features = xenvif_fix_features,
+ .ndo_set_mac_address = eth_mac_addr,
+ .ndo_validate_addr = eth_validate_addr,
};
struct xenvif *xenvif_alloc(struct device *parent, domid_t domid,
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