netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2] vlan: Propagate MAC address to VLANs unless explicitly set

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Date:	Wed, 04 May 2016 11:58:15 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mkubecek@...e.cz
Cc:	mmanning@...cade.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] vlan: Propagate MAC address to VLANs unless
 explicitly set

From: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 11:28:02 +0200

> The commit message says "unless explicitly changed for the VLAN" but
> what you really check is "if it is the same as real device MAC address".
> This, in general, is not the same. (I believe this is what David tries
> to explain from the start.)

Even more proof that these MAC checks are rediculous, confusing, and
that we need to use a boolean state stores in the vlan private in
order to implement the intended semantics properly and more importantly
"clearly".