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>
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Mark Bloch 2025-05-22 10:13:56 +03:00 committed by Paolo Abeni
parent 08ae62e172
commit f95633adc1

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@ -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,