Re: [PATCH for-next 01/10] net/core: Add support for configuring VF GUIDs

On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 06:52:14PM +0200, Eli Cohen wrote:

Add two new NLAs to support configuration of Infiniband node or port
GUIDs. New applications can choose to use this interface to configure
GUIDs with iproute2 with commands such as:

ip link set dev ib0 vf 0 node_guid 00:02:c9:03:00:21:6e:70
ip link set dev ib0 vf 0 port_guid 00:02:c9:03:00:21:6e:78

I like this idea better than the last version..

+static int handle_vf_mac(struct net_device *dev, struct ifla_vf_mac *ivm)
+{

[..]

+	return handle_infiniband_guid(dev, &ivt, IFLA_VF_IB_PORT_GUID);

But is this emulation really necessary? It seems dangerous and
continues the bad practice of assuming IFLA_VF_MAC is fixed to 6 bytes
in size, and is not just LLADDR bytes. I'd rather see mac sets fail on
IB.

Jason
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