netdev - Re: [PATCHv4] Bridge: Always send NETDEV

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Date:	Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:45:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	andreiw@...orola.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4] Bridge: Always send NETDEV_CHANGEADDR up on br MAC
 change.

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 13:12:30 -0700

> On Fri,  5 Aug 2011 16:04:10 -0500
> Andrei Warkentin <andreiw@...orola.com> wrote:
> 
>> This ensures the neighbor entries associated with the bridge
>> dev are flushed, also invalidating the associated cached L2 headers.
>> 
>> This means we br_add_if/br_del_if ports to implement hand-over and
>> not wind up with bridge packets going out with stale MAC.
>> 
>> This means we can also change MAC of port device and also not wind
>> up with bridge packets going out with stale MAC.
>> 
>> This builds on Stephen Hemminger's patch, also handling the br_del_if
>> case and the port MAC change case.
>> 
>> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrei Warkentin <andreiw@...orola.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

Applied, thanks.
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