From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: introduce a list of device addresses dev_addr_list (v6) Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 15:38:42 -0700 Message-ID: <20090508153842.65ce3bed@s6510> References: <20090418085848.GC3370@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com> <20090504111417.GE3402@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com> <20090505124827.GB3473@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com> <20090505.122718.51237316.davem@davemloft.net> 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: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:42497 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752350AbZEHWis (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2009 18:38:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090505.122718.51237316.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 05 May 2009 12:27:18 -0700 (PDT) David Miller wrote: > From: Jiri Pirko > Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 14:48:28 +0200 > > > This patch introduces a new list in struct net_device and brings a set of > > functions to handle the work with device address list. The list is a replacement > > for the original dev_addr field and because in some situations there is need to > > carry several device addresses with the net device. To be backward compatible, > > dev_addr is made to point to the first member of the list so original drivers > > sees no difference. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko > > Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks! > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Not sure if this is such a good idea since the purpose of this was to fix a bonding/bridging interaction, but it breaks STP on bridging.