On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 01:47:15AM -0500, Faizal Rahim wrote: > From: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@xxxxxxxxx> > > The frame preemption verification (as defined by IEEE 802.3-2018 > Section 99.4.3) handshake is done by the driver, the default > configuration of the driver is to only receive frames with the driver > address. > > So, in preparation for that add a second address to the list of > acceptable addresses. > > Because the frame preemption "verify_enable" toggle only affects the > transmission of verification frames, this needs to always be enabled. > As that address is invalid, the impact in practical scenarios should > be minimal. But still a bummer that we have to do this. Stuff that happened since this patch was written: "ethtool --set-mm pmac-enabled on" exists. You don't have to accept verification frames if the pMAC is disabled. You can enable the reception of 00:00:00:00:00:00 using that, and keep it off by default.
