From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] netdev: storage address support Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:48:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20090427.184854.227522560.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20090424080349.30460.73770.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20090427.030103.88777540.davem@davemloft.net> <20090427222800.GA14396@cleech-lnx.jf.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:47537 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752932AbZD1BtA (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:49:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090427222800.GA14396@cleech-lnx.jf.intel.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: christopher.leech@intel.com Cc: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org From: Chris Leech 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.