From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dingtianhong@huawei.com
Cc: kaber@trash.net, vyasevic@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3] macvlan: fix the problem when mac address changes for passthru mode
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:57:51 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140602.155751.10391105293526523.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53882611.1080302@huawei.com>
From: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 14:32:49 +0800
> The macvlan dev should always have the same mac address like lowerdev
> when in the passthru mode, change the mac address alone will break the
> work mechanism, so when the lowerdev or macvlan mac address changes,
> we should propagate the changes to another dev.
>
> v1->v2: Allow macvlan dev to change mac address for passthru mode and propagate to
> lowerdev.
>
> v2->v3: Don't set the mac address to the lower dev's unicast address for
> passthru mode when mac address changes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Applied, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-02 22:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-30 6:32 [PATCH net-next v3] macvlan: fix the problem when mac address changes for passthru mode Ding Tianhong
2014-06-02 14:53 ` Vlad Yasevich
2014-06-02 22:57 ` David Miller [this message]
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