Commit c45a6d1a authored by Piotr Gardocki's avatar Piotr Gardocki Committed by Jakub Kicinski
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i40e: remove unnecessary check for old MAC == new MAC 



The check has been moved to core. The ndo_set_mac_address callback
is not being called with new MAC address equal to the old one anymore.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPiotr Gardocki <piotrx.gardocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSimon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent ad72c4a0

drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c

+0 −6
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@@ -1788,12 +1788,6 @@ static int i40e_set_mac(struct net_device *netdev, void *p) 
	if (!is_valid_ether_addr(addr->sa_data))

		return -EADDRNOTAVAIL;



	if (ether_addr_equal(netdev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data)) {

		netdev_info(netdev, "already using mac address %pM\n",

			    addr->sa_data);

		return 0;

	}



	if (test_bit(__I40E_DOWN, pf->state) ||

	    test_bit(__I40E_RESET_RECOVERY_PENDING, pf->state))

		return -EADDRNOTAVAIL;