netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] infiniband: convert to use netdev_for_each_mc

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Date:	Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:44:42 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jpirko@...hat.com
Cc:	jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com, ogerlitz@...taire.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] infiniband: convert to use
 netdev_for_each_mc_addr

From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:38:37 +0100

> I see two solutions:
> 1) check the length in all drivers to ensure correctness.
> 2) when bonding changes it's type, flush mc addresses and start over.
> 
> Second option looks nicer to me, but I might be missing something, thouths?

If bonding is causing this problem, perhaps we should make bonding
go through a programmatic interface to do it's work so that the
check can be done generically and in a place that will get
caught during code changes and audits.
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