Re: [PATCH] net: introduce a list of device addresses dev_addr_list (v6)

David Miller
2009-05-08T23:26:24Z

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
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 :-)