From 4830192cd8d71d1796b59a2df9d13b69e0c87d55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sathya Perla <sathyap@serverengines.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:58:04 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 159684 b: refs/heads/master c:
 a65027e4d80ece5a5a3bd4fc4808a83208430929 h: refs/heads/master v: v3

---
 [refs]                            |  2 +-
 trunk/drivers/net/benet/be_main.c | 15 +++++----------
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 9c9d32dcc10a..f3dee26f5e9a 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: ae6e2aef6c03ccb06c6baaa1b77cc0e0ae226faf
+refs/heads/master: a65027e4d80ece5a5a3bd4fc4808a83208430929
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/net/benet/be_main.c b/trunk/drivers/net/benet/be_main.c
index 45507d88e6a1..362346045ed3 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/net/benet/be_main.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/net/benet/be_main.c
@@ -117,23 +117,18 @@ void be_cq_notify(struct be_adapter *adapter, u16 qid, bool arm, u16 num_popped)
 	iowrite32(val, adapter->db + DB_CQ_OFFSET);
 }
 
-
 static int be_mac_addr_set(struct net_device *netdev, void *p)
 {
 	struct be_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(netdev);
 	struct sockaddr *addr = p;
 	int status = 0;
 
-	if (netif_running(netdev)) {
-		status = be_cmd_pmac_del(adapter, adapter->if_handle,
-				adapter->pmac_id);
-		if (status)
-			return status;
-
-		status = be_cmd_pmac_add(adapter, (u8 *)addr->sa_data,
-				adapter->if_handle, &adapter->pmac_id);
-	}
+	status = be_cmd_pmac_del(adapter, adapter->if_handle, adapter->pmac_id);
+	if (status)
+		return status;
 
+	status = be_cmd_pmac_add(adapter, (u8 *)addr->sa_data,
+			adapter->if_handle, &adapter->pmac_id);
 	if (!status)
 		memcpy(netdev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data, netdev->addr_len);