From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Handling set_mac_address in set_rx_mode
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 16:38:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4686BF35.8080605@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4686A614.1000709@trash.net>
Patrick McHardy wrote:
> While adding support for secondary unicast addresses to 8021q and
> macvlan, I've tried keeping dev->dev_addr as global address on
> dev->uc_list and have drivers skip them to avoid having all
> dev_unicast_add users implement a state machine like this:
[...]
Something that is not entirely clear to me... This has zero impact on
existing drivers, right?
I would not fancy updating all drivers for a new MAC addr scheme...
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-30 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-30 18:51 Handling set_mac_address in set_rx_mode Patrick McHardy
2007-06-30 20:38 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-07-02 12:20 ` Patrick McHardy
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