| From 63ae93a19094d88c8ca62543586b20e3a7ff7637 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 |
| From: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com> |
| Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:10:40 +0000 |
| Subject: qlge: Bonding fix for mode 6. |
| |
| From: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com> |
| |
| commit 63ae93a19094d88c8ca62543586b20e3a7ff7637 upstream. |
| |
| Allow MAC address to be changed even if device is not up. |
| |
| Signed-off-by: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com> |
| Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
| Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <bphilips@suse.de> |
| Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> |
| |
| --- |
| drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c | 3 --- |
| 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) |
| |
| --- a/drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c |
| +++ b/drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c |
| @@ -3712,9 +3712,6 @@ static int qlge_set_mac_address(struct n |
| 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); |
