On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 10:43:08AM +0800, akong@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxx> > > When we set mac address, software mac address in system and hardware mac > address all need to be updated. Current eth_mac_addr() doesn't allow > callers to implement error handling nicely. > > This patch split eth_mac_addr() to prepare part and real commit part, > then we can prepare first, and try to change hardware address, then do > the real commit if hardware address is set successfully. > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <akong@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > include/linux/etherdevice.h | 2 ++ > net/ethernet/eth.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- > 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) Feel free to make yourself author and put me just as Suggested-by:. I posted pseudo-code but didn't write the patch or test it, so it's fair to say that credit goes to you. :) Stefan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
