net/mlx5e: Allow setting MAC address of representors

A representor netdev does not correspond to real hardware that needs to
be updated when setting the MAC address. The default eth_mac_addr() is
sufficient for simply updating the netdev's MAC address with validation.

Signed-off-by: Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1747898036-1121904-1-git-send-email-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c
index 719aa16bd4046c49e4d8224fc2cecaf371648a58..63a7a788fb0db5ce91fe8db94f122f489a22ec39 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c
@@ -804,6 +804,7 @@ static const struct net_device_ops mlx5e_netdev_ops_rep = {
        .ndo_stop                = mlx5e_rep_close,
        .ndo_start_xmit          = mlx5e_xmit,
        .ndo_setup_tc            = mlx5e_rep_setup_tc,
+       .ndo_set_mac_address     = eth_mac_addr,
        .ndo_get_stats64         = mlx5e_rep_get_stats,
        .ndo_has_offload_stats   = mlx5e_rep_has_offload_stats,
        .ndo_get_offload_stats   = mlx5e_rep_get_offload_stats,