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 16:12:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090508161204.134668b9@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090508.160008.127530143.davem@davemloft.net>
On Fri, 08 May 2009 16:00:08 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
> 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.
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.
--
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-08 23:12 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
2009-05-08 23:00 ` David Miller
2009-05-08 23:12 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
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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