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| author | Ian Morgan <imorgan@primordial.ca> | 2014-10-19 08:05:13 -0400 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-11-14 08:47:53 -0800 |
| commit | 9744aac69371ecac7ac6bef8a7a4a65d4e949dfa (patch) | |
| tree | 2e52641c8749e010262fd0a2585be8c2231074f8 /drivers/net | |
| parent | 4449361e6feca3caa91749ad3f8333f9ac5502ab (diff) | |
| download | lwn-9744aac69371ecac7ac6bef8a7a4a65d4e949dfa.tar.gz lwn-9744aac69371ecac7ac6bef8a7a4a65d4e949dfa.zip | |
ax88179_178a: fix bonding failure
[ Upstream commit 95ff88688781db2f64042e69bd499e518bbb36e5 ]
The following patch fixes a bug which causes the ax88179_178a driver to be
incapable of being added to a bond.
When I brought up the issue with the bonding maintainers, they indicated
that the real problem was with the NIC driver which must return zero for
success (of setting the MAC address). I see that several other NIC drivers
follow that pattern by either simply always returing zero, or by passing
through a negative (error) result while rewriting any positive return code
to zero. With that same philisophy applied to the ax88179_178a driver, it
allows it to work correctly with the bonding driver.
I believe this is suitable for queuing in -stable, as it's a small, simple,
and obvious fix that corrects a defect with no other known workaround.
This patch is against vanilla 3.17(.0).
Signed-off-by: Ian Morgan <imorgan@primordial.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c b/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c index d33c3ae2fcea..3b449c4ecf72 100644 --- a/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c @@ -695,6 +695,7 @@ static int ax88179_set_mac_addr(struct net_device *net, void *p) { struct usbnet *dev = netdev_priv(net); struct sockaddr *addr = p; + int ret; if (netif_running(net)) return -EBUSY; @@ -704,8 +705,12 @@ static int ax88179_set_mac_addr(struct net_device *net, void *p) memcpy(net->dev_addr, addr->sa_data, ETH_ALEN); /* Set the MAC address */ - return ax88179_write_cmd(dev, AX_ACCESS_MAC, AX_NODE_ID, ETH_ALEN, + ret = ax88179_write_cmd(dev, AX_ACCESS_MAC, AX_NODE_ID, ETH_ALEN, ETH_ALEN, net->dev_addr); + if (ret < 0) + return ret; + + return 0; } static const struct net_device_ops ax88179_netdev_ops = { |