From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / =?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCNUhGIzFRTEAbKEI=?= Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6][NEIGH] Updating affected neighbours when about MAC address change Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:11:26 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <20071223.211126.118866275.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> References: <31436f4a0712230341x5a0abf08q7e6f7917ba7e38f0@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org To: dshwatrz@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from yue.linux-ipv6.org ([203.178.140.15]:44295 "EHLO yue.st-paulia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750788AbXLWMKs (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Dec 2007 07:10:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: <31436f4a0712230341x5a0abf08q7e6f7917ba7e38f0@mail.gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: In article <31436f4a0712230341x5a0abf08q7e6f7917ba7e38f0@mail.gmail.com> (at Sun, 23 Dec 2007 13:41:36 +0200), "David Shwatrz" says: > I had written a small patch to neigh_changeaddr() in net/core/neighbour.c > against the 2.6 git net tree, which sends a gratuitous ARP to update > the list of > all the involved neighbours with the change of MAC address. > The patch is for neigh_changeaddr() only. Though I can see no patch, but I disagree. ;-) I do think you should change arp_netdev_event() and ndisc_netdev_event(). --yoshfuji