From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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)
Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 15:38:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090508153842.65ce3bed@s6510> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090505.122718.51237316.davem@davemloft.net>
On Tue, 05 May 2009 12:27:18 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
> Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 14:48:28 +0200
>
> > This patch introduces a new list in struct net_device and brings a set of
> > functions to handle the work with device address list. The list is a replacement
> > for the original dev_addr field and because in some situations there is need to
> > carry several device addresses with the net device. To be backward compatible,
> > dev_addr is made to point to the first member of the list so original drivers
> > sees no difference.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
>
> Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks!
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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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-08 22:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-13 18:33 [PATCH] bonding: allow bond in mode balance-alb to work properly in bridge Jiri Pirko
2009-03-14 5:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-03-14 9:49 ` Jiri Pirko
2009-03-15 23:12 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-03-16 11:11 ` Jiri Pirko
2009-03-19 6:20 ` David Miller
2009-03-19 8:44 ` Jiri Pirko
2009-03-19 10:21 ` David Miller
2009-03-19 11:19 ` Jiri Pirko
2009-03-19 8:50 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-19 16:31 ` Jiri Pirko
2009-03-25 13:04 ` [PATCH] bonding: allow bond in mode balance-alb to work properly in bridge -try2 Jiri Pirko
2009-03-25 13:40 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-03-25 14:39 ` Jiri Pirko
2009-03-25 15:19 ` [PATCH] bonding: allow bond in mode balance-alb to work properly in bridge -try3 Jiri Pirko
2009-03-25 16:31 ` Jay Vosburgh
2009-03-25 17:44 ` Jiri Pirko
2009-03-26 0:24 ` David Miller
2009-03-26 0:34 ` Jay Vosburgh
2009-03-26 11:12 ` Jiri Pirko
2009-03-26 15:52 ` [PATCH] bonding: allow bond in mode balance-alb to work properly in bridge -try4 Jiri Pirko
2009-03-27 7:38 ` David Miller
2009-03-27 7:46 ` Jiri Pirko
2009-03-27 7:53 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-27 8:41 ` Jiri Pirko
2009-03-27 8:55 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-27 9:47 ` Jiri Pirko
2009-03-29 20:53 ` David Miller
2009-03-30 12:04 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-30 12:40 ` Jiri Pirko
2009-03-30 12:47 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-30 12:52 ` Jiri Pirko
2009-03-30 12:58 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-04-13 8:37 ` [PATCH 0/4] bonding: allow bond in mode balance-alb to work properly in bridge -try5 Jiri Pirko
2009-04-13 8:38 ` [PATCH 1/4] net: introduce dev_mac_address_changed Jiri Pirko
2009-04-13 14:58 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-04-13 8:42 ` [PATCH 2/4] net: introduce a list of device addresses dev_addr_list Jiri Pirko
2009-04-13 14:49 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-04-13 22:54 ` David Miller
2009-04-13 22:53 ` David Miller
2009-04-13 8:44 ` [PATCH 3/4] net: bridge: use device address list instead of dev_addr Jiri Pirko
2009-04-13 14:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-04-14 10:15 ` Jiri Pirko
2009-04-13 22:54 ` David Miller
2009-04-13 8:46 ` [PATCH 4/4] net: bonding: add slave device addresses in mode alb Jiri Pirko
2009-04-13 14:56 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-04-15 8:17 ` [PATCH 0/3] bonding: allow bond in mode balance-alb to work properly in bridge -try6 Jiri Pirko
2009-04-15 8:18 ` [PATCH 1/3] net: introduce a list of device addresses dev_addr_list Jiri Pirko
2009-04-15 8:26 ` Li Zefan
2009-04-15 8:29 ` Jiri Pirko
2009-04-15 8:32 ` Jiri Pirko
2009-04-15 9:21 ` David Miller
2009-04-15 9:27 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-04-15 9:31 ` David Miller
2009-04-15 10:13 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-04-15 10:15 ` David Miller
2009-04-15 10:41 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-04-15 10:45 ` David Miller
2009-04-15 10:47 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-04-15 14:42 ` Jiri Pirko
2009-04-15 11:17 ` Jiri Pirko
2009-04-15 11:22 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-04-15 11:28 ` Jiri Pirko
2009-04-15 12:28 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-04-15 18:02 ` [PATCH 1/3] net: introduce a list of device addresses dev_addr_list (v2) Jiri Pirko
2009-04-15 18:54 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-04-16 8:46 ` Jiri Pirko
2009-04-17 11:57 ` [PATCH 1/3] net: introduce a list of device addresses dev_addr_list (v3) Jiri Pirko
2009-04-17 15:33 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-04-18 7:01 ` Jiri Pirko
2009-04-18 7:35 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-04-18 7:44 ` Jiri Pirko
2009-04-18 8:06 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-04-18 8:58 ` [PATCH 1/3] net: introduce a list of device addresses dev_addr_list (v4) Jiri Pirko
2009-04-20 16:11 ` Jiri Pirko
2009-04-23 8:09 ` Jiri Pirko
2009-05-04 11:14 ` [PATCH] net: introduce a list of device addresses dev_addr_list (v5) Jiri Pirko
2009-05-05 4:37 ` David Miller
2009-05-05 6:37 ` Jiri Pirko
2009-05-05 12:48 ` [PATCH] net: introduce a list of device addresses dev_addr_list (v6) Jiri Pirko
2009-05-05 19:27 ` David Miller
2009-05-08 22:38 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2009-05-08 23:00 ` David Miller
2009-05-08 23:12 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-05-08 23:25 ` David Miller
2009-05-08 23:29 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-04-15 8:21 ` [PATCH 2/3] net: bridge: use device address list instead of dev_addr Jiri Pirko
2009-05-06 14:46 ` [PATCH net-next] net: bridge: use device address list instead of dev_addr (repost) Jiri Pirko
2009-05-06 15:08 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-05-06 19:26 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-05-07 22:03 ` David Miller
2009-04-15 8:22 ` [PATCH 3/3] net: bonding: add slave device addresses in mode alb Jiri Pirko
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