[RFC PATCH 0/2] make mac programming for virtio net more robust

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From: Amos Kong <akong@xxxxxxxxxx>

Currenly mac is programmed byte by byte. This means that we
have an intermediate step where mac is wrong. 

Second patch introduced a new vq control command to set mac
address in one time.

Amos Kong (2):
  move virtnet_send_command() above virtnet_set_mac_address()
  virtio-net: introduce a new control to set macaddr

 drivers/net/virtio_net.c        | 105 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h |   8 ++-
 2 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)

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1.7.11.7

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