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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: bridge: accept bridge own MAC address as local
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:29:17 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Ulrich Weber <ulrich.weber@sophos.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:30:24 +0200

> bridge: accept bridge own MAC address as local
> if MAC address of bridge is manually set (BR_SET_MAC_ADDR). Otherwise
> only MAC addresses of bridge members will work if manually set.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ulrich Weber <ulrich.weber@sophos.com>

As Stephen mentioned, the real bug is that we don't create a local
FDB entry (and get rid of the old one) when the MAC address changes.