Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Mar 2024 15:38:47 +0100 | From | Andrew Lunn <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: marvell: prestera: force good base mac |
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 03:51:12PM +0200, Elad Nachman wrote: > From: Elad Nachman <enachman@marvell.com> > > Since each switchport MAC address uses the switch base mac address > and adds the physical port number to it, > Force the last byte of the switch base mac address to be at > least 128, so when adding to it, we will not wrap around the > previous (more significant) mac address byte, resulting in a > warning message.
It is not clear to me what the real problem is here. Does the hardware require that the MAC addresses always have the same upper 5 bytes?
Andrew
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