From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: notify applications if address of bridge device changes Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:34:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20110327.183413.229737801.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20110324162401.2f322e3e@nehalam> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org To: shemminger@vyatta.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:51275 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753215Ab1C1Bev (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:34:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110324162401.2f322e3e@nehalam> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:24:01 -0700 > The mac address of the bridge device may be changed when a new interface > is added to the bridge. If this happens, then the bridge needs to call > the network notifiers to tickle any other systems that care. Since bridge > can be a module, this also means exporting the notifier function. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Applied, thanks Stephen.