From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932155AbZEGWDZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2009 18:03:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754220AbZEGWDN (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2009 18:03:13 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:53514 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753753AbZEGWDM (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2009 18:03:12 -0400 Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 15:03:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20090507.150307.195857213.davem@davemloft.net> To: shemminger@linux-foundation.org Cc: jpirko@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, fubar@us.ibm.com, bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, kaber@trash.net, mschmidt@redhat.com, dada1@cosmosbay.com, ivecera@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: bridge: use device address list instead of dev_addr (repost) From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20090506122645.456d9af4@nehalam> References: <20090415082118.GC21342@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com> <20090506144624.GI28637@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com> <20090506122645.456d9af4@nehalam> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.2.51 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 12:26:45 -0700 > Won't this all break spanning tree which expects 1:1 relationship > between address and port. Indeed, this could be a fundamental issue with this change.