From: Tomasz Duszynski <tdu@semihalf.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 10:57:37 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: net/mrvl: allow adding MAC address before port init
X-Git-Tag: spdx-start~61
X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9f7d41e6a703f1f88fe54593e185d6e4ca5aad38;p=dpdk.git

net/mrvl: allow adding MAC address before port init

Since DPDK restores ether address configuration after device
is started it is safe to add ether address to uninitialized port (ppio).

Fixes: c0511a8f741f ("net/mrvl: check if ppio is initialized")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Tomasz Duszynski <tdu@semihalf.com>
---

diff --git a/drivers/net/mrvl/mrvl_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/mrvl/mrvl_ethdev.c
index a0116752eb..16a964b1fd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mrvl/mrvl_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mrvl/mrvl_ethdev.c
@@ -909,7 +909,7 @@ mrvl_mac_addr_add(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, struct ether_addr *mac_addr,
 		return -1;
 
 	if (!priv->ppio)
-		return -EPERM;
+		return 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * Maximum number of uc addresses can be tuned via kernel module mvpp2x