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authorPiotr Gardocki <piotrx.gardocki@intel.com>2023-06-14 16:53:01 +0200
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2023-06-15 22:54:54 -0700
commitc45a6d1a23c50b97afd7d767b86e28ea5722e7b7 (patch)
tree28f92fcdc1526babc987222b9405bcfc82f741cd /drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
parentad72c4a06acc6762e84994ac2f722da7a07df34e (diff)
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: Piotr Gardocki <piotrx.gardocki@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c6
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
index b847bd105b16..29ad1797adce 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
@@ -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;