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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH next v1] ipvlan: assign unique dev-id for each slave
 device.
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 13:30:53 -0500 (EST)
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From: Mahesh Bandewar <mahesh@bandewar.net>
Date: Tue,  3 Jan 2017 12:47:16 -0800

> From: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
> 
> IPvlan setup uses one mac-address (of master). The IPv6 link-local
> addresses are derived using the mac-address on the link. Lack of
> dev-ids makes these link-local addresses same for all slaves including
> that of master device. dev-ids are necessary to add differentiation
> when L2 address is shared.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>

Applied, thanks.