netdev - Re: [PATCHv4] Bridge: Always send NETDEV

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Message-ID: <CALfQTu7x5NVjLCEWenXR8nK1fVZ1c6190FA8+84Teksrm_Wg8w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 9 Aug 2011 00:12:45 -0500
From:	Andrei Warkentin <andreiw@...orola.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4] Bridge: Always send NETDEV_CHANGEADDR up on br MAC change.

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com> wrote:
> On Fri,  5 Aug 2011 16:04:10 -0500
> Andrei Warkentin <andreiw@...orola.com> wrote:
>
>> This ensures the neighbor entries associated with the bridge
>> dev are flushed, also invalidating the associated cached L2 headers.
>>
>> This means we br_add_if/br_del_if ports to implement hand-over and
>> not wind up with bridge packets going out with stale MAC.
>>
>> This means we can also change MAC of port device and also not wind
>> up with bridge packets going out with stale MAC.
>>
>> This builds on Stephen Hemminger's patch, also handling the br_del_if
>> case and the port MAC change case.
>>
>> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrei Warkentin <andreiw@...orola.com>
>
> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
>

Thank you for the Ack.

A
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