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Subject: Re: [Patch net 3/3] team: use a larger struct for mac address
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 09:11:35 -0700
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On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> wrote:
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> We already have struct sockaddr_storage that could be used throughout this
> set as well. We just converted a few pieces of the bonding driver over to
> using it for better support of ipoib bonds, via commit
> faeeb317a5615076dff1ff44b51e862e6064dbd0. Might be better to just use that
> in both bonding and team, rather than having different per-driver structs,
> or Yet Another Address Storage implementation.

Technically, struct sockaddr_storage is not enough either, given the
max is MAX_ADDR_LEN. This is why I gave up on sockaddr_storage.