From: Ian Morgan Patch-mainline: v3.18-rc3 Git-commit: 95ff88688781db2f64042e69bd499e518bbb36e5 References: bsc#908253 The following patch fixes a bug which causes the ax88179_178a driver to be incapable of being added to a bond. When I brought up the issue with the bonding maintainers, they indicated that the real problem was with the NIC driver which must return zero for success (of setting the MAC address). I see that several other NIC drivers follow that pattern by either simply always returing zero, or by passing through a negative (error) result while rewriting any positive return code to zero. With that same philisophy applied to the ax88179_178a driver, it allows it to work correctly with the bonding driver. I believe this is suitable for queuing in -stable, as it's a small, simple, and obvious fix that corrects a defect with no other known workaround. This patch is against vanilla 3.17(.0). Signed-off-by: Ian Morgan Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: David Chang --- drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c b/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c index 054e59c..8cee173 100644 --- a/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c @@ -696,6 +696,7 @@ static int ax88179_set_mac_addr(struct net_device *net, void *p) { struct usbnet *dev = netdev_priv(net); struct sockaddr *addr = p; + int ret; if (netif_running(net)) return -EBUSY; @@ -705,8 +706,12 @@ static int ax88179_set_mac_addr(struct net_device *net, void *p) memcpy(net->dev_addr, addr->sa_data, ETH_ALEN); /* Set the MAC address */ - return ax88179_write_cmd(dev, AX_ACCESS_MAC, AX_NODE_ID, ETH_ALEN, + ret = ax88179_write_cmd(dev, AX_ACCESS_MAC, AX_NODE_ID, ETH_ALEN, ETH_ALEN, net->dev_addr); + if (ret < 0) + return ret; + + return 0; } static const struct net_device_ops ax88179_netdev_ops = { -- 2.1.2 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org