On Wed, Aug 06, 2025 at 12:21:30PM -0700, Emil Tantilov wrote:
> On control planes that allow changing the MAC address of the interface,
> the driver must provide a MAC type to avoid errors such as:
>
> idpf 0000:0a:00.0: Transaction failed (op 535)
> idpf 0000:0a:00.0: Received invalid MAC filter payload (op 535) (len 0)
>
> These errors occur during driver load or when changing the MAC via:
> ip link set <iface> address <mac>
>
> Add logic to set the MAC type before performing ADD/DEL operations.
> Since only one primary MAC is supported per vport, the driver only needs
> to perform ADD in idpf_set_mac().
>
> Fixes: ce1b75d0635c ("idpf: add ptypes and MAC filter support")
> Reported-by: Jian Liu <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Emil Tantilov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <[email protected]>
