From: Michael Chan <michael.c...@broadcom.com> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 08:57:01 -0800
> We are not registering an invalid MAC address. We are just storing it in the > driver's VF data structure. There are 2 cases: > > 1. VF comes up and the MAC address from firmware is 0. The VF will > generate random MAC. The stored MAC address in the VF datastructure is > 0 so that ip set link eth0 address is allowed on the VF. Who looks at this 0 MAC address in the "VF datastructure", the driver? Why does there need to be a 0 MAC address there to allow ->ndo_set_mac_address() to succeed on the VF at all? This MAC address management between VFs and PFs looks unnecessarily convoluted and complicated. I'd hate to have to actually be a user configuring this stuff.
