net/tap: keep kernel-assigned MAC address

There's no point in having a different internal MAC address than the one
provided by the kernel when creating the netdevice.

Signed-off-by: Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>

diff --git a/drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c b/drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c
index 8811716..b397308 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c
@@ -553,28 +553,6 @@ pmd_mac_address(int fd, struct rte_eth_dev *dev, struct ether_addr *addr)
                return -1;
        }
 
-       /* Set the host based MAC address to this special MAC format */
-       ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data[0] = 'T';
-       ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data[1] = 'a';
-       ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data[2] = 'p';
-       ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data[3] = '-';
-       ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data[4] = dev->data->port_id;
-       ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data[5] = dev->data->numa_node;
-       if (ioctl(fd, SIOCSIFHWADDR, &ifr) == -1) {
-               RTE_LOG(ERR, PMD, "%s: ioctl failed (SIOCSIFHWADDR) (%s)\n",
-                       dev->data->name, ifr.ifr_name);
-               return -1;
-       }
-
-       /* Set the local application MAC address, needs to be different then
-        * the host based MAC address.
-        */
-       ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data[0] = 'd';
-       ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data[1] = 'n';
-       ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data[2] = 'e';
-       ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data[3] = 't';
-       ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data[4] = dev->data->port_id;
-       ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data[5] = dev->data->numa_node;
        rte_memcpy(addr, ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data, ETH_ALEN);
 
        return 0;