netdev - Re: [PATCH net-2.6][NEIGH] Updating affected neighbours when about MAC address change

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Message-Id: <20071223.211126.118866275.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Date:	Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:11:26 +0900 (JST)
From:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
To:	dshwatrz@...il.com
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6][NEIGH] Updating affected neighbours when about
 MAC address change

In article <31436f4a0712230341x5a0abf08q7e6f7917ba7e38f0@...l.gmail.com> (at Sun, 23 Dec 2007 13:41:36 +0200), "David Shwatrz" <dshwatrz@...il.com> says:

> I had written a small patch to neigh_changeaddr() in net/core/neighbour.c
> against the 2.6 git net tree, which sends a gratuitous ARP to update
> the list of
> all the involved neighbours with the change of MAC address.
> The patch is for neigh_changeaddr() only.

Though I can see no patch, but I disagree. ;-)
I do think you should change arp_netdev_event() and ndisc_netdev_event().

--yoshfuji
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