netdev - Re: [PATCH] bonding: allow bond in mode balance-alb to work properly in bridge

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Message-ID: <20090319111927.GD4123@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:19:28 +0100
From:	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jgarzik@...ox.com,
	bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, fubar@...ibm.com,
	bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: allow bond in mode balance-alb to work
	properly in bridge

Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:21:43AM CET, davem@...emloft.net wrote:
>From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
>Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:44:45 +0100
>
>> Yes I was looking at this thing yesterday (uc_list). But this list serves
>> to different purpose. Do you think that it will be correct to use it for this? I
>> would maybe like to make a new list similar to this for our purpose
>> (say addr_list). I think it would be more correct.
>
>Whatever you do with that list privately inside of the bonding
>driver should be fine.
Well I do not need it only inside the bonding driver. I want bridge to use this
list when adding a device in it and get mac addresses from there into its
hashlist (to recognize these addresses as local).
>
>It might upset something in the generic code if you don't clean
>it up before deregistration of the bonding device, so just be
>tidy.
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