From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763607AbZEHX0Y (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2009 19:26:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754394AbZEHX0B (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2009 19:26:01 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:52618 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754468AbZEHX0A (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2009 19:26:00 -0400 Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 16:25:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20090508.162555.193731410.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: <20090508161204.134668b9@nehalam> References: <20090508153842.65ce3bed@s6510> <20090508.160008.127530143.davem@davemloft.net> <20090508161204.134668b9@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: 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 :-)