From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: introduce a list of device addresses dev_addr_list (v6) Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 16:25:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20090508.162555.193731410.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20090508153842.65ce3bed@s6510> <20090508.160008.127530143.davem@davemloft.net> <20090508161204.134668b9@nehalam> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 To: shemminger@vyatta.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:52618 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754468AbZEHX0A (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2009 19:26:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090508161204.134668b9@nehalam> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Stephen Hemminger 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 :-)