This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: mvneta: enable change MAC address when interface is up to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-mvneta-enable-change-mac-address-when-interface-is-up.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 928b6519afeb2a5e2dc61154380b545ed66c476a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dmitri Epshtein <dima@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 18:44:18 +0100 Subject: net: mvneta: enable change MAC address when interface is up From: Dmitri Epshtein <dima@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit 928b6519afeb2a5e2dc61154380b545ed66c476a upstream. Function eth_prepare_mac_addr_change() is called as part of MAC address change. This function check if interface is running. To enable change MAC address when interface is running: IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE flag must be set to dev->priv_flags field Fixes: c5aff18204da ("net: mvneta: driver for Marvell Armada 370/XP network unit") Signed-off-by: Dmitri Epshtein <dima@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c @@ -3404,7 +3404,7 @@ static int mvneta_probe(struct platform_ dev->features = NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_TSO; dev->hw_features |= dev->features; dev->vlan_features |= dev->features; - dev->priv_flags |= IFF_UNICAST_FLT; + dev->priv_flags |= IFF_UNICAST_FLT | IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE; dev->gso_max_segs = MVNETA_MAX_TSO_SEGS; err = register_netdev(dev); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dima@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/net-mvneta-enable-change-mac-address-when-interface-is-up.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html