Problem Description: Live update of devices' mac address is currently blocked by this driver, as it requires the evaluation of netif_running() given the corresponding device being false. While appearing a harmless check, it can be disruptive in some networking configurations, such as "Link Aggregation" operated in active-backup mode with fail_over_mac=follow, where the mac address of a device will be updated dynamically even when it is already up and running. Solution: Remove the check of netif_running() in ax88179_set_mac_addr(), so that the update procedure can proceed irrespective of the boolean status returned by netif_running(). Verification: Only tested with this device: 0b95:1790 ASIX Electronics Corp. AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet Signed-off-by: Chun-Chao Yen <nothingstopsme@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c b/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c index 96ede3a131d4..84016e0567d4 100644 --- a/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c @@ -958,8 +958,6 @@ static int ax88179_set_mac_addr(struct net_device *net, void *p) struct sockaddr *addr = p; int ret; - if (netif_running(net)) - return -EBUSY; if (!is_valid_ether_addr(addr->sa_data)) return -EADDRNOTAVAIL; -- 2.32.0
