Patch "net: mvneta: enable change MAC address when interface is up" has been added to the 4.5-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

net: mvneta: enable change MAC address when interface is up

to the 4.5-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
net-mvneta-enable-change-mac-address-when-interface-is-up.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Dmitri Epshtein <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 18:44:18 +0100
Subject: net: mvneta: enable change MAC address when interface is up

From: Dmitri Epshtein <[email protected]>

commit 928b6519afeb2a5e2dc61154380b545ed66c476a upstream.

Function eth_prepare_mac_addr_change() is called as part of MAC address change. This function check if interface is running. To enable change MAC address when interface is running:
IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE flag must be set to dev->priv_flags field

network unit")

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -3720,7 +3720,7 @@ static int mvneta_probe(struct platform_
 	dev->features = NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_TSO;
 	dev->hw_features |= dev->features;
 	dev->vlan_features |= dev->features;
-	dev->priv_flags |= IFF_UNICAST_FLT;
+	dev->priv_flags |= IFF_UNICAST_FLT | IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE;
 	dev->gso_max_segs = MVNETA_MAX_TSO_SEGS;
 
 	err = register_netdev(dev);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.5/net-mvneta-enable-change-mac-address-when-interface-is-up.patch