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Subject: Re: [Bridge] [PATCH] net: introduce a list of device addresses
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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 16:12:04 -0700

> But the other infrastructure may have same issues (netfilter, etc).
> Just seems like it would be either to have multiple network devices
> so that upper layers could disambiguate easier.

That's quite a heavyweight solution to what is purely
an addressing issue, don't you think?

We can just revert all of that netdev_ops stuff if you
think per-netdev cost doesn't matter :-)