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i40e: Explicitly write platform-specific mac address after PF reset
authorTushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@oracle.com>
Fri, 1 Jul 2016 17:11:20 +0000 (10:11 -0700)
committerDhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@oracle.com>
Wed, 8 Mar 2017 00:31:07 +0000 (19:31 -0500)
commitb38f0e664c2d4aa4b9d6c3f710cf8b83ababd84c
tree7d6e3cd8815e4b51213bbfb431d62be018924aca
parent8e0c9004fe9fc90d89d69d6cb6633a1789f17d08
i40e: Explicitly write platform-specific mac address after PF reset

Orabug: 24568124

i40e PF reset clears mac filters. If platform-specific mac address
is used, driver has to explicitly write default mac address to mac
filters otherwise all incoming traffic destined to default mac
address will be dropped after reset.

This issue was found on SPARC while toggling i40e ntuple via ethtool.

Signed-off-by: Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
(cherry picked from commit b1b15df5923232114a908fe1fd8b701c36259259)
Signed-off-by: Brian Maly <brian.maly@oracle.com>
Conflicts:
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c

Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@oracle.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c