From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:21:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20090415.022131.157811430.davem@davemloft.net> From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20090415083223.GF21342@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com> References: <20090415081819.GB21342@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com> <49E59A1C.9030108@cn.fujitsu.com> <20090415083223.GF21342@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Bridge] [PATCH 1/3] net: introduce a list of device addresses dev_addr_list List-Id: Linux Ethernet Bridging List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: jpirko@redhat.com Cc: ivecera@redhat.com, fubar@us.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, lizf@cn.fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mschmidt@redhat.com, jgarzik@pobox.com, dada1@cosmosbay.com, bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net From: Jiri Pirko Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:32:24 +0200 > This patch introduces a new list in struct net_device and brings a set of > functions to handle the work with device address list. The list is a replacement > for the original dev_addr field and because in some situations there is need to > carry several device addresses with the net device. To be backward compatible, > dev_addr is made to point to the first member of the list so original drivers > sees no difference. > > Note: patch adding list_first_entry_rcu (currently in Ingo's tip tree) needed. > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko Jiri, please add some distinguishing text to your subject lines when you post fixed up version of patches. Like "v2" or something like that, and make a note under the commit message of the changes you've made from the previous version. Otherwise I think it's a dup (because I get a thousand copies anyways) and will just delete it both in my inbox and on patchwork. Thanks.