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authorSathya Perla <sathyap@serverengines.com>2009-08-17 00:58:04 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-08-17 17:48:27 -0700
commita65027e4d80ece5a5a3bd4fc4808a83208430929 (patch)
treef054b4cb0afbc6a3ba235969db353b277b58b9ce /drivers
parentae6e2aef6c03ccb06c6baaa1b77cc0e0ae226faf (diff)
be2net: Set mac addr in hw regardless of netif_running()
be_mac_addr_set() currently is broken when netif_running() is false. Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathyap@serverengines.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/benet/be_main.c15
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/benet/be_main.c b/drivers/net/benet/be_main.c
index 45507d88e6a..362346045ed 100644
--- a/drivers/net/benet/be_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/benet/be_main.c
@@ -117,23 +117,18 @@ void be_cq_notify(struct be_adapter *adapter, u16 qid, bool arm, u16 num_popped)
iowrite32(val, adapter->db + DB_CQ_OFFSET);
}
-
static int be_mac_addr_set(struct net_device *netdev, void *p)
{
struct be_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(netdev);
struct sockaddr *addr = p;
int status = 0;
- if (netif_running(netdev)) {
- status = be_cmd_pmac_del(adapter, adapter->if_handle,
- adapter->pmac_id);
- if (status)
- return status;
-
- status = be_cmd_pmac_add(adapter, (u8 *)addr->sa_data,
- adapter->if_handle, &adapter->pmac_id);
- }
+ status = be_cmd_pmac_del(adapter, adapter->if_handle, adapter->pmac_id);
+ if (status)
+ return status;
+ status = be_cmd_pmac_add(adapter, (u8 *)addr->sa_data,
+ adapter->if_handle, &adapter->pmac_id);
if (!status)
memcpy(netdev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data, netdev->addr_len);