On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 06:30:46PM +0800, ak...@redhat.com wrote:
> From: Amos Kong <ak...@redhat.com>
> 
> In virtio-net guest driver, currently we write MAC address to
> pci config space byte by byte, this means that we have an
> intermediate step where mac is wrong. This patch introduced
> a new control command to set MAC address, it's atomic.
> 
> VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR is a new feature bit for compatibility.
> 
> "mac" field will be set to read-only when VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR
> is acked.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <ak...@redhat.com>
> ---
> V2: check guest's iov_len
> V3: fix of migration compatibility
>     make mac field in config space read-only when new feature is acked
> ---
>  hw/pc_piix.c    |  4 ++++
>  hw/virtio-net.c | 10 +++++++++-
>  hw/virtio-net.h | 12 ++++++++++--
>  3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com>

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