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

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Message-ID: <20090319084444.GA4123@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:44:45 +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 07:20:03AM CET, davem@...emloft.net wrote:
>From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
>Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:11:28 +0100
>
>> I can see two solutions. Either like my patch or somehow allow bridge to know
>> more MAC addressses per port (maybe netdev can be changed to know more then
>> one MAC address).
>> 
>> Any thoughts?
>
>The netdev struct already supports having a list of multiple unicast
>MAC addresses, it can probably be used and inspected for this.
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.

Eventually in the furute we would use this list as a primary place to store
device address instead of dev_addr value and make it more general (as device
generally may have more adresses). Just a thought...

>
>I'll hold off on your patch until we make some more progress on
>this discussion.
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