From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762971AbZEHXAa (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2009 19:00:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751481AbZEHXAP (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2009 19:00:15 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:32884 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751209AbZEHXAO (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2009 19:00:14 -0400 Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 16:00:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20090508.160008.127530143.davem@davemloft.net> To: shemminger@vyatta.com Cc: jpirko@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, shemminger@linux-foundation.org, 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: introduce a list of device addresses dev_addr_list (v6) From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20090508153842.65ce3bed@s6510> References: <20090505124827.GB3473@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com> <20090505.122718.51237316.davem@davemloft.net> <20090508153842.65ce3bed@s6510> 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: Fri, 8 May 2009 15:38:42 -0700 > Not sure if this is such a good idea since the purpose of this was to fix > a bonding/bridging interaction, but it breaks STP on bridging. Thanks for not paying attention... :-/ The Intel folks want to have an address list functionality so they can public MAC addresses meant for FCOE and other purposes. So even if the bonding bits bomb, we still need this.