Re: [PATCH linux-next v3 0/6] vdpa: enable user to set mac, mtu

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On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 10:13:11AM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote:
> 
> > From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 5, 2021 3:28 PM
> > 
> > On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 10:11:49PM +0300, Parav Pandit wrote:
> > > Currently user cannot set the mac address and mtu of the vdpa device.
> > > This patchset enables users to set the mac address and mtu of the vdpa
> > > device once the device is created.
> > > If a vendor driver supports such configuration user can set it
> > > otherwise user gets unsupported error.
> > 
> > This makes sense to me overall. People are used to use netlink to set these
> > parameters, and virtio does not necessarily have a way to set all device
> > parameters - they can be RO in the config space.
> 
> Yes. this series enables it to RO when driver doesn't support setting it.
> When driver supports it, it is RW.
> 
> Do I need to rebase + resend?
> Please let me know.

Can't hurt.

-- 
MST

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