From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: christopher.leech@intel.com
Cc: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
gospo@redhat.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netdev: storage address support
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:48:54 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090427.184854.227522560.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090427222800.GA14396@cleech-lnx.jf.intel.com>
From: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:28:00 -0700
> Ignoring the issue of intended use for the moment, if an ethernet driver
> wanted to advertise several MAC addresses to the system how should it go
> about that?
Now that's a more interesting question.
It seems better to formalize this. It can be an ethtool
callback or whatever, but what it should do is return
an array of addresses, types, and perhaps even indexes
with types.
So you could return LAN1, LAN2, LAN3, and SAN1.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-28 1:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-24 8:03 [PATCH] netdev: storage address support Jeff Kirsher
2009-04-27 10:01 ` David Miller
2009-04-27 22:28 ` Chris Leech
2009-04-28 1:48 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-04-28 8:30 ` Jiri Pirko
2009-04-28 9:12 ` David Miller
2009-04-28 10:18 ` Jiri Pirko
2009-04-28 11:25 ` David Miller
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