be2net: Changing MAC Address of a VF was broken.

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Allow for MAC Address change of VF(SR-IOV case) on the fly- First add and then
delete MAC Address to allow for 'out of pool' errors.
When MAC Addr configured from a VM, the MAC on the NIC will aleady have
the supplied MAC,so just copy the supplied MAC to the netdev structure
before returning success to the stack

Signed-off-by: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Somnath Kotur 2011-10-27 07:14:05 +00:00 • committed by David S. Miller

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drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_cmds.c

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drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c

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