Re: [PATCH] bonding: allow bond in mode balance-alb to work properly in bridge

Jiri Pirko
2009-03-19T11:21:20Z

Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:21:43AM CET, davem@davemloft.net wrote:
>From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
>Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:44:45 +0100
>
>> Yes I was looking at this thing yesterday (uc_list). But this list serves
>> to different purpose. Do you think that it will be correct to use it for this? I
>> would maybe like to make a new list similar to this for our purpose
>> (say addr_list). I think it would be more correct.
>
>Whatever you do with that list privately inside of the bonding
>driver should be fine.
Well I do not need it only inside the bonding driver. I want bridge to use this
list when adding a device in it and get mac addresses from there into its
hashlist (to recognize these addresses as local).
>
>It might upset something in the generic code if you don't clean
>it up before deregistration of the bonding device, so just be
>tidy.