netdev - Re: [PATCH] bonding: allow bond in mode balance-alb to work properly in bridge -try4

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Message-ID: <49D0BF7F.1060305@trash.net>
Date:	Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:47:59 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jgarzik@...ox.com,
	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	fubar@...ibm.com, bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	mschmidt@...hat.com, dada1@...mosbay.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: allow bond in mode balance-alb to work	properly
 in bridge -try4

Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Currently I'm thinking the way. What I have on mind:
> I would like to add a list into struct net_device to contain all mac addresses
> of the device. I would also like to use similar interface to handle them as
> currently is for uc_list and mc_list. However I do not like that these lists are
> not using standard list_head but they are propriate lists only for this purpose.
> I'm thinking about converting them to use list_head first. Or maybe ignore them
> and do the new list for macs in parallel?

Using list_heads in the address lists would require some pretty large
amount of work since you'd need to convert all the drivers. I'm all
in favour of doing this, but I wouldn't make the fix depend on that
work.

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