From patchwork Tue Nov 17 21:10:40 2009 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Ron Mercer X-Patchwork-Id: 38673 X-Patchwork-Delegate: davem@davemloft.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.176.167]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BFD7100A24 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:13:34 +1100 (EST) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752606AbZKQVRR (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:17:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751639AbZKQVRR (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:17:17 -0500 Received: from avexch1.qlogic.com ([198.70.193.115]:9445 "EHLO avexch1.qlogic.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750772AbZKQVRR (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:17:17 -0500 Received: from linux-ox1b.qlogic.com ([172.17.161.157]) by avexch1.qlogic.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:16:12 -0800 Received: by linux-ox1b.qlogic.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 85EA82C6A3; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:10:40 -0800 (PST) From: Ron Mercer To: davem@davemloft.net Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, ron.mercer@qlogic.com Subject: [net-next PATCH 1/1] qlge: Bonding fix for mode 6. Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:10:40 -0800 Message-Id: <1258492240-24554-1-git-send-email-ron.mercer@qlogic.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.6.0.2 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Nov 2009 21:16:12.0534 (UTC) FILETIME=[30A0B160:01CA67CB] Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org Allow MAC address to be changed even if device is not up. Signed-off-by: Ron Mercer --- drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c | 3 --- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c b/drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c index e2ee47d..7692299 100644 --- a/drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c @@ -3951,9 +3951,6 @@ static int qlge_set_mac_address(struct net_device *ndev, void *p) struct sockaddr *addr = p; int status; - if (netif_running(ndev)) - return -EBUSY; - if (!is_valid_ether_addr(addr->sa_data)) return -EADDRNOTAVAIL; memcpy(ndev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data, ndev->addr_len);