netdev - Re: How to use gretap with bridge?

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Date:	Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:27:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, nneul@....edu, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to use gretap with bridge?

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:39:57 -0700

> On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:51:48 -0400
> Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> 
>> gre: Fix dev_addr clobbering for gretap
>> 
>> Nathan Neulinger noticed that gretap devices get their MAC address
>> from the local IP address, which results in invalid MAC addresses
>> half of the time.
>> 
>> This is because gretap is still using the tunnel netdev ops rather
>> than the correct tap netdev ops struct.
>> 
>> This patch also fixes changelink to not clobber the MAC address
>> for the gretap case.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
>> 
>> Thanks,
> 
> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

Applied to net-2.6, thanks!
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