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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 10:10:20 -0800 |
| commit | 6f7ec20cfea3bd7e041a7785a1af379a0daaa28c (patch) | |
| tree | d6e8238a13205318e3e0e15dace62b46c56e17f8 /drivers/net | |
| parent | 96798a1735c430afca60cf0563c93a5973b3edf0 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-6f7ec20cfea3bd7e041a7785a1af379a0daaa28c.tar.gz lwn-6f7ec20cfea3bd7e041a7785a1af379a0daaa28c.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>
drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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 be4275721039..e6338c16081a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c @@ -937,6 +937,7 @@ 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; @@ -946,8 +947,12 @@ 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 = { |