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

Stephen Hemminger
2009-05-08T23:30:16Z

On Fri, 08 May 2009 16:25:55 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> 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 :-)

I am just concerned that is a fundamental change (like MQ) was and
it will take a couple of releases to shake out all the inter-relationships.
When an architectural change is made, would like to see more analysis done.
Netdev-ops was more of a refactoring than a change to what protocols
and qdisc/filters/... see.

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