From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Nicolas de Pesloüan" <nicolas.2p.debian@gmail.com>,
"Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, roy@marples.name,
"Andy Gospodarek" <andy@greyhouse.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next] bonding: notify when bonding device address changes
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 09:18:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110416091804.5e6b0b9f@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11728.1302895704@death>
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:28:24 -0700
Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> wrote:
>
> >When a device changes its hardware address, it needs to call the network
> >device notifiers to inform protocols.
> >
> >Compile tested only.
I did not audit that all the call sites have the proper locking.
When calling notifier, no bridge locks should be held and RTNL mutex
should be held.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-16 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-15 16:44 The bonding driver should notify userspace of MAC address change Michał Górny
2011-04-15 18:40 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-04-15 18:53 ` Jay Vosburgh
2011-04-15 19:10 ` [RFC net-next] bonding: notify when bonding device address changes Stephen Hemminger
2011-04-15 19:28 ` Jay Vosburgh
2011-04-16 16:18 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2011-04-15 19:12 ` The bonding driver should notify userspace of MAC address change Phil Oester
2011-04-15 19:22 ` Jay Vosburgh
2011-04-15 19:22 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-04-15 21:45 ` Jay Vosburgh
2011-04-16 9:07 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
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